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13. Once, twice, thrice, four times, five times, six times, seven times, eight times, nine 
times, ten times. 
14. Let not the fastening roots of Taane® be unloosed by thee: let not the hateful 
ill-omened winds to Taane be set free by thee. 
15. Let the swimmings of a man in the ocean finally end; (let him) emerge at the 
habitable regions, at the lightsome (and) joyous dwellings. 
16. Take up this descendant (of a line of chiefs); behold! he lives; (he) swims 
bravely. 
17. Lo! he swims on; the head first- born chief keeps pursuing; he follows on still 
swimming a 
18. a me swims; behold! he swims strongly; still swimming onwards, enabled, 
enduring. 
19. A head first-born chief/follows on ; still keeping at the swimming ; lo! he swims. 
20. Behold! he swims away, even Paikea (a) first-born chief, who keeps going 
forwards, still keeping on swimming. 
21. Lo! he swims; behold! he swims; upborne he swims; upborne he continues ; 
he keeps at it, swimming onwards, toiling manfully. 
22. Now above (the surface), then below! anon rolling between the billows; all that 
ends in the very reaching of the shore by Taane himself.7 
23. Lo! look out! there it is; coming onwards towards (me), like a huge ctiite 
wave. Ugh! strike it down! fell it! with the famed axe of ancient times,—that which 
overturned the land. 
: 24. Ha! ha! his own mighty first-born chief appears (to his succour); that is, 
Rongomaruawhatu,$ therefore it (the big) overwhelming wave, fled away, far off; ha! 
- The plugging and caulking stands good. * 
. The fixing and lashing together stands good.° 
. Let (him or it) be uplifted and carefully carried. 
- Let (him or it) be raised and supported. 
- Let (him or it) be borne along.1 
. Alas! or distress, making me to toil laboriously at swimming ; here, indeed, it 
is now being se 
31. Make ane to swim on courageously and well, as a skilful PPreing one of old : 
truly so! here, indeed, is it now being shown 
32. In the midst of the great ocean ; nae, indeed, is it being seen. 
33. In the midst of the desolate wild, far away from man ; here, indeed, it is shown. 
34. In the ragged first-appearings of daylight,—far off on the horizon, when first seen 
away there (from the shore); here, such is now being seen. 
ew nd bo po bo 
SSaeanasu 
the owner and creator of forests; (see “ Trans. N.Z. Inst.,” Vol. XIIL., p. 
65;) ‘ba metonymically used ;—* roots of Taane,”—i.e., of the trees of the forests. The 
strong westerly winds which often blow furiously in semen beige down from the 
wooded hoch and off the shore, East Coast, are here depreca 
7 Figurative, for a wooden canoe made out of a forest at 
5 One of Paikea’s ancestors. 
* These two verses (25 and 26) are spoken of a canoe 
© These last three verses (27-29) may mean, either Paikea, or the canoe coming to 
save him ; there is nothing in the original to indicate gender. 
4 A term curiously used here,—as it means the uninhabited barren wilderness, far 
away from the dwellings of man. 
