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in Ihurahirahi to be a medium for it, who came to Tokomani that is now, 

 his principal place of residence being at Orangikupa, and there he dwelt. 

 That village fpa ) was on a high steep cliff, froin which he went right off 

 into the sea, and thus it came to pass ; the poor bewildered one was walk- 

 ing, when the evil demon (atua) said to him : " It is all solid land there 

 below, that he would not get bogged"'' in that water." The people of the 

 place were on the look out and saw him walk right away from the top of 

 the chff, when he was lost to their eyes. On his sinking down, however, he 

 was at the depths of the sea folloAving his great chief (or leader),! near the 

 mouth of the codfish (hapuku) who was being snapped at continually by 

 the hajyuku, so he followed his great chief ; there he saw the multitude of 

 fishes, food for man, scuttling about in all directions. His big chief was 

 very courageous, and so was he through him, and he at last re-appeared 

 above on the surface of the sea. Then he looked about, fastening his eyes 

 on the land, its mountains, and hills, and cliff's, and he knew that shore 

 and that land, and at length reached the strand at a place called Te Poroporo. 

 There he told what he had seen in the sea to the people of that place, who 

 were all highly delighted at his relation to them. In the morning they 

 embarked in their fishing canoes, and paddled away out to sea to the spot 

 rich in fishes which had been described to them, which they also found by 

 its bearing signs on the land. There they fished with hook and line, and soon 

 filled their canoes with fish. They named that I'ock " Kapuarangi." Their 

 fishing over they paddled back to the shore, landing at Te Poroporo. The 

 chief, Te Haratau, who lived near by, hearing of this, Avent also out to sea, 

 to that very rock, to Kapuarangi, but he took with him to sea his weapons 

 for fighting. The other chief, Euatona, being informed of this, went also 

 out to sea in his canoes, taking also with him his fighting weapons, to show 

 his anger against Te Haratau. On Te Haratau looking up from his fishing 

 towards the land, he saw the canoes of Euatona paddling out towards him, 

 so he left off fishing and came to meet him. They met full drive ! They 

 fought at sea, and then they all paddled to shore. On lauding they recom- 

 menced their warfare, and behold ! Te Haratau was killed by Euatona. 

 Then it was that Euatona's friends and helpers said, " Let the body be 



* " Bogged '^=powharuivharu, — This term, which is commonly and properly used with 

 reference to swamps and deep muddy places, seems strangely out of place here. I never 

 heard, never met with it so used before, especially with reference to the deep sea — clear 

 water. I have a suspicion that, like some of the noted Delphic Oracles, — and like that of 

 the juggling fiend in Shakespeare, (" The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." — 

 King Henry IV., part ii., act 2, so. 4), it was " said " with a double meaning. 



t Translation here is difficult ; I have given it nearly literally. I suppose the great 

 chief, or leader (heruitoi), to be the atua or demon, who had deceived him. 



