22 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



13. Once, twice, thrice, four times, five times, six times, seven times, eight times, nine 

 times, ten times. 



14. Let not the fastening roots of Taane^ be unloosed by thee: let not the hateful 

 ill-omened winds to Taane be set free by thee. 



15. Let the swimmings of a man in the ocean finally end ; (let him) emerge at the 

 habitable regions, at the lightsome (and) joyous dwellings. 



16. Take up this descendant (of a line of chiefs); behold! he lives; (he) swims 

 bravely. 



17. Lo ! he swims on ; the head first-bom chief keeps pursuing ; he follows on still 

 swimming away. 



18. Lo! he swims; behold! he swims strongly; still swimming onwards, enabled, 

 enduring. 



19. A head first-born chiefpollows on ; still keeping at the swimming ; lo ! he swims. 



20. Behold ! he swims away, even Paikea (a) first-born chief, who keeps going 

 forwards, still keeping on swimming. 



21. Lo I he swims ; behold ! he swims ; upborne he swims ; upborne he continues ; 

 he keeps at it, swimming onwards, toiling manfully. 



22. Now above (the surface), then below ! anon rolling between the biUows ; all that 

 ends in the very reaching of the shore by Taane himself.' 



23. Lo! look out! there it is; coming onwards towards (me), like a huge rolling 

 wave. Ugh ! strike it down ! fell it ! with the famed axe of ancient times, — that which 

 overturned the land. 



24. Ha ! ha ! his own mighty first-born chief appears (to his succour) ; that is, 

 Kongomaruawhatu,8 therefore it (the big) overwhelming wave, fled away, far off ; ha ! 



25. The plugging and caulking stands good. 



26. The fixing and lashing together stands good.^ 



27. Let (him or it) be itplifted and carefully carried. 



28. Let (him or it) be raised and supported. 



29. Let (him or it) be borne along.!** 



30. Alas ! my distress, making me to toil laboriously at swimming ; here, indeed, it 

 is now being seen. 



31. Make (thyself) to swim on courageously and well, as a skilful knowing one of old : 

 truly so ! here, indeed, is it now being shown. 



32. In the midst of the great ocean ; here, indeed, is it being seen. 



33. In the midst of the desolate wild,i^ far away from man ; here, indeed, it is shown. 



34. In the ragged first-appearings of daylight, — far off on the horizon, when first seen 

 away there (from the shore) ; here, such is now being seen. 



6 Taane, the owner and creator of forests; (see "Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. XIII., p. 

 65;) here metonymically used; — " roots of Taane," — i.e., of the trees of the forests. The 

 strong westerly winds which often blow furiously in summer, sweeping down from the 

 wooded heights and off the shore. East Coast, are here deprecated. 



7 Figurative, for a wooden canoe made out of a forest tree. 



8 One of Paikea's ancestors. 



9 These two verses (25 and 26) are spoken of a canoe. 



1° These last three verses (27-29) may mean, either Paikea, or the canoe coming to 

 save him ; there is nothing in the original to indicate gender. 



11 A term curiously used here, — as it means the uninhabited barren wilderness, far 

 away from the dwellings of man. 



