Wohlers. — Mythology and Traditions of the Maori 27 



appearance, and Tinirau got on Lis back and rode away over tlie sea, Lis pet 



birds flying and screaming over him. When tliey came near an inhabited place- 

 then the birds hovered and screamed over the same, to see if Hine was there ; 

 raid when they ascertained that she was not, then they flew screaming away 

 to another place, Tinirau following them on the back of Lis fish, Tutunui. 



While so proceeding, he happened to meet an old acquaintance, named 

 Kae, who came paddling along in a small canoe. They both stopped to have a 

 little chat, in which Kae persuaded Tinirau that they should change their 

 conveyances. Then Tinirau stepped into Kae'a canoe, and Kae got on the 

 back of Tinirau's fish. Before they parted, Tinirau charged Kae to get ofl 

 while still in deep water, and on no account take their ancestor into shallow 

 water. Kae promised that he would do so. Then each pursued his way. 



Tinirau paddled away in the small canoe, following his birds. But he 

 found it slow work, and not so easy as riding on Lis tame fish. Luckily 

 he met another acquaintance, named Tautini, who possessed a large tame 

 Nautilus, which he kindly lent him. On this he could sail nicely by the 

 wind, following his ruing birds. So they went on over the sea, trying 



many places, over which the birds soared for awhile, circling and screaming, 

 nd then flew away to another place. At last they came to a place where the 

 birds would not leave. They kept on flying round and round and screaming 

 always over that place. By this Tinirau knew that Lis wife must be there, 

 o he let go Lis Nautilus and went ashore. 



When he had gone a little way inland, he m a girl carrying baby 

 clothes. He asked Ler, " Where are you going .'' < : I am going to wash the 

 clothes for my sister's baby," said the girl. "And who is your sister 1 

 asked Tinirau. "My sisters name is Hine-te-iw aiwa, and her baby's father is 

 called Tinirau/' she said. "Let me help you to wash the baby's clothes," 

 bossed Tinirau. "No," ad the girl, "I can do that myself well enough." 

 However, Tinirau begged so Lard to let him help Ler washing the baby' 

 clothe-, and to beat tLem to make them soft, that she at last let him. Then 



the girf went home with them, If ving Tinirau there by the water. 



When the girl came home, she told her sister that she had met a stranger, 

 who Lad insisted on washing some of the baby's clothes, and that she Lad let 

 Lim. Hine asked what son of man lie Mas. and when the girl described him, 

 she asked for some karetu grass, which she wound into a charm, called a 

 tamatane; this she gave to the girl and told Ler to go and throw it at the 

 stranger, and then to come back and tell Ler if Le Lad caught it or not. The 

 ffiri did so; and when she came back she told Ler sister, "I just threw it at 

 him, and he caught it at once." Hine was satisfied. 



In the evening she told the girl to go to the common Louse, to deep there. 



