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

 birds flying and screaming over him. When they came near an inhabited place, 

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

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

 to another place, Tinirau following them on the back of his fish, Tutnnni. 



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's canoe, and Kae got on the 

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

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

 water. Kae promised that he avouIcI 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 his tame fish. Luckily 

 he met another accj^uaintance, named Tautini, who possessed a large tame 

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

 wind, following his screaming birds. So they went on over the sea, trjdng 

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

 and 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 his wife must be there, 

 so he let go his Nautilus and went ashore. 



When he had gone a little way inland, he met a girl carrying baby's 

 clothes. He asked her, "Where are you going f "I am going to wash the 

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

 asked Tinirau. " My sister's name is Hine-te-iwaiwa, and her baby's father is 

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

 begged Tinirau. "No." said the girl, "I can do that myself well enough." 

 However, Tinirau begged so hard to let him help her washing the baby's 

 clothes, and to beat them to make them soft, that she at last let him. Then 

 the girl went home with them, leaving Tinirau there by the water. 



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

 who had insisted on Avashing some of the baby's clothes, and that she had let 

 him. Hine asked AAdiat sort of man he Avas, and when the girl described him, 

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

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

 stranger, and then to come back and tell her if he had caught it or not. The 

 girl did so; and when she came back she told her sister, "I just thrcAv it at 

 him, and he caught it at onee." Hine Avas satisfied. 



In the evening she told the girl to go to the common house, to sleep there. 



