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some time, Uenuku again called on his preternatural power (atua), the mist 
on the mountain—that is, to the mist on Tirikawa, saying: ‘‘ Clear up!” 
And lo! it was all clear and bright day. Then the war party looked out 
from their canoes, and found that many of Tawheta’s people were still alive. 
On this Uenuku again commanded the mist on Tirikawa, saying: ‘ Fall 
on! cover up!’’ when, as before, it was again as dark as night, and 
Tawheta’s people began afresh to fight and slay each other with greater fury 
than before. By-and-bye Uenuku again called on the mist, saying: ‘The 
mist of Tirikawa, break up, clear up, instantly!’ And lo! it was again 
clear daylight. Then Uenuku, thinking they had destroyed each other, 
pulled off the garments from the roasted heart and sacred fire, and lo! on 
looking at the sea they saw it was covered with floating corpses and red with 
the blood of the many slain; deeply red all around them with blood! Three 
times did Uenuku call on his demons, before that his foes were destroyed. 
Then Uenuku and his party paddled their canoes to the shore, and landing, 
killed the few survivors whom they found there on the beach. Tawheta, 
however, and his remaining men, rallied, and came on, and renewed the 
fight, which was desperately taken up by Uenuku and his party, by whom 
Tawheta himself was also killed; but the great multitude of his people died 
by their own hands, and not by Uenuku’s party. The fighting in the sea 
was named, ‘‘The lengthened day;’’ “the day (of) two sunsets;” and, 
again, because of the great amount of the blood of man in the sea, it was 
also called, ‘‘ The sea of loathsome water ;” and the name given to the last 
battle on land, in which Tawheta was slain, was, “‘ The rising tide.’’ These 
were the bloody battles of Uenuku ; these were the desolations of Uenuku. 
The victors cooked and cooked human flesh day after day, and all day, but 
they could not cook all the food, so it was left and wasted because it 
became rotten. Here ends the relation of those fightings of Uenuku the 
man-eater; the evil murders of his children, however, were all sorely and 
fully avenged. Uenuku having taken Paimahutanga to wife, she bore him 
& son, whose name was Ruatapu, whose doings shall now also be narrated. 
Il. Tse Story or Ruatapu anp Parkea. 
Many years after those fightings Uenuku got a large canoe made; Haeora 
was the name of the skilful man who made it ; and Te Huripureiata was the 
name of that canoe. When the canoe was built and finished, it was painted 
red, and fully ornamented with pigeon’s feathers, and all its many adorn- 
ments. All this took a long time. Then it was that Uenuku ordered his 
sons, and the sons of other chiefs, to assemble, in order that the hair of 
their heads might be combed and anointed and neatly tied up in a knot on 
the crown, and ornamented with a high dress comb stuck in behind (worn 
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