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Eangahua. Then Euatapu cried out, " Go thou, swim away to land ; and 

 note well, if I am lost here, then thou wilt surely know that I am not 

 descended from our father ; but if I escape from this calamity, then, verily, 

 I am from our father. Go thou on ; let the crowded parties of the summer 

 season ever remember me, that I am also there, (I) shall not be hidden. 

 When the squid and the jeUy-fishes shall have reached the sandy beaches 

 (in the summer season), then look out, I am but a little way behind them, 

 going also towards the shore. Go on, swim away, proceed thou to the 

 land ; those who should be the survivors from this wreck (are) become as a 

 pile of slain in a day of bloody battle. This is another word of mine to thee, 

 Let Kahutuanui have the striking-up of the song, so that when (ye), the 

 ample broad-chested, may be sitting closely together in a row by the side of 

 the fire,* it shall be sung in parts, — in fruitful seasons and in unfruitful 

 ones, — at the times of assembling together in companies, and at the times 

 of living separately (in families) ; through this I shall be ever remembered," 

 Then Paikea said, " The tidings of our calamity shall be safely carried by 

 me to our town, for I am verily descended from (those of) the sea, — Te 

 Petipeti, Te Eangahua, and Te Aihumoanaf being my ancestors." Here 

 Euatapu gave his last parting words to Paikea, " Go on, swim away to land, 

 to the dear old home ! " and so saying he held up liis paddle. | So Paikea 

 proceeded on, swimming towards land, reciting as he went liis powerful 

 spell ; and this was it : — 



1. " Now shall be shown, now revealed, the vigour of the trembling heart ; now shall 

 be known the force of the anxious heart ; now shall be seen the strength of the fluttering 

 weak female heart.^ 



* For the common regular diversons of the evening, when the fires were lighted in 

 their large houses. 



t Paikea has now twice firmly asserted his descent from (beings of) the sea, — and he 

 is not the first of the ancient Maori heroes who has done so. Of those four names of his 

 ancestors here given by him, all are found in the Genealogical EoU (appended) ; but the 

 first (Eongomaitahanui) and the last (Te Aihumoana) are, also, mythically known as 

 ancient sea-demons (atua), and, so far, pre-historieal. Paikea is also the proper name of 

 a species of whale. I saw one about 34 yeia,rs ago, which had been driven on shore here 

 in Hawke's Bay in a severe gale ; it was very long, with a sharpish snout, and its white 

 belly was regularly and closely longitudinally fluted throughout. Its appearance 

 reminded me strongly of the plate of Balcena hoops in Eees' Cyclopedia. 



\ There is a meaning here in this action of Euatapu which should not be overlooked. 

 To retain one's paddle (which was often highly carved and ornamented), in upsettings of 

 canoes and in naval fights, was always an achievement, and a token of bravery, etc. 

 Just as that of a young Spartan to retain his shield, or, in modern times, the colours, 

 arms, etc. 



iThe very opposite feelings are to be here understood. Also in Uenuku's Spell, p. 7; 

 and in Whakatau's Chant, " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. XIII., p. 68 ; and the last line of 

 Songs, 1 and 4, pp. 65 and 70, I.e. 



