1 4 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



made the rope into a noose, and laid the same round the opening of the cave. 

 Then Maui stood on one side, holding one end of the rope, and his brothers 

 stood on the other side, holding the other end. Maui told them to let the Sun 

 get his head fairly through, and then, when he called out, to pull with all their 

 might, but not before. When they had thus stood for awhile, there came first 

 a glimmer, then a fiery redness. Then the fiery hair of the Sun, all standing 

 on end, appeared through the opening, and after that the head and glowing 

 face came up. When the head was so far up that the noose could catch the 

 neck, then Maui called out to pull; and the Sun was caught. Now Maui beat 

 him for his laziness, and the Sun cried, "Maui, let me go. Maui, why dost 

 thou beat me? Maui, let me go." At last, when the Sun had honestly 

 promised to rise earlier in the morning, and to set later in the evening, and to 

 run his course properly, Maui let him go. 



After this Maui went to see his sister — for it appears that he had a 



sister. Her husband's name was Irawaru. Maui became disgusted with him, 



because he was a greedy man at meals. One day, when they had eaten, Maui 

 said to him, "Come out with me; pick over my head." So the two went out; 

 Maui laid down, and Irawaru picked over his head. Then Maui said, "Now 

 lie down; let me do your head." While Maui's fingers went through 

 Irawaru's hair, the latter fell fast asleep. Then Maui pulled his ears to the 

 length and shape of dogs' ears; then he pulled the mouth and jaws to a dog's 

 face, and so all over the body, limb by limb, not forgetting to pull out a tail 

 behind; till he had transformed him into a dog. After that, he went a little 

 way oft', and then called him as a dog is called. Then Irawaru got up and 

 showed all the manners of a dog. When Maui went into the house, his sister 



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asked him, "Wher 



"Outside; call him." His sister 



did so, but her husband did not come. " Call him as a dog is called," said 

 Maui "My husband a dog!" said his sister, feeling hurt. Nevertheless, she 

 called at last with a sound as if calling a dog; and then her husband came, 



transformed into a dog, wagging his tail and whining round her. "O, Maui," 

 cried his sister, "thou didst not consider that he was thy brother-in-law." She 

 then sat down on the ground and cried a long and touching wail, and then 

 went into the sea to drown herself. However, it seems that she was not 

 drowned, but washed on a distant shore, where she was revived ; and then there 

 is another story about her, but it seems to belong to a later period. 



Even Maui's death was attended with nonsensical mischief. He would try 

 to get back out of the world, by the Goddess of Death, Hinenui o te Po (Great 

 Maid of the World of Night, — identical with Hineatauira, her former name), 

 as children are born into it: but that is not interestincr to civilized people. 



