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suffered greatly. Tuere, however, died at Te Waitotara, his own place, and 

 was buried in a small wood called Kaniawhea. His sons and people con- 

 tinued to dwell for some time at that place ; and by-and-by, at the proper 

 time, they exhumed the body of their dead father Tuere, and manufactured 

 his bones into fishing-hooks ; and when all was done they carried them out 

 to sea, and fished, and caught a large quantity of fine fish ; then they 

 paddled back to the shore, but on reaching it they did not take a single 

 thing out of their canoe, leaving therein the fish, the hooks and lines, the 

 paddles, and the balers, — all, everything ; landing stark naked, and so going 

 to their residence. Now all this was not of themselves, not of their own 

 devising ; for their dead father had planned all this, and bound them by his 

 last words, — the performance only at this time being theirs ; and thus they 

 fulfilled his commands. They shoved ofl" the canoe, and sent it adrift to go 

 whither it would, being pretty sure that it would soon reach some other 

 inhabited village on the coast, where the people would seize and eat the fish 

 which was in the canoe, that by their so doing they might all die, — through 

 the powerful malevolent influence of the bones of Tuere.* And so, at last, 

 the wished-for slaughter was made, and the battle was gained by Tuere and 

 his sons. And they (the sons) having done all this, left those parts, where 

 they had long lived, migrating northwards to Maketu and Tauranga ; 

 where some of theu' descendants are to this day, — the offspring of Te 

 Eangihouwhiri. 



Tivo Tales, both historical and true, showing the Overwhelming Poiver 



of Shame. 

 6. The Story of Pukoroauahi, his Sistee, and his Brother-in-law. 

 In the olden time there was a chief named Taranuiomatenga ; his wife's 

 name was Puhaureroa, and her brother was called Pukoroauahi. These 

 three lived together at one place. The wife's brother was very skilful at 

 snaring birds for them to eat, which he continually did, while his sister and 

 her husband remained quietly at home. The husband took good care daily 

 to devour the choice fat birds, leaving for his brother-in-law the less prized 

 and lean ones, — 'Such as hawks and owls, parrots and crows ;t these, too, 

 the young man sat apart to eat by the smouldering brands of the cookmg- 

 fixes, where his eyes were made sore with the smoke; nevertheless his sister 

 very often managed, when cooking, to hide a nice tit-bit for her brother. One 

 day the brother went to his usual occupation in the woods ; on this day to 

 catch, by imitation of then- cries, small singing birds— as kotihes I and 



* The words are, " Kei nga iwi o Tuere te mana te attm." 



t GallcEos cinerea. 



I Pogonornis cincta. 



