CoLENSO. — Traditions of the Maoris. 23 



35. My bird is verily met above ; yes ! there (it is) now returning ; here, indeed, it is 

 shown. 



36. Euatapu stood upright (in the sea) grasping his paddle, his last token ! Alas ! 

 (it) was bad. 



37. One chief dies (or disappears), another succeeds. ' 



38. Kahutiarangi took Te Panipani to wife; he was a great chief's son, highly 

 esteemed by Whangara. 



39. Here am I, still swimming on ; floating, but, alas ! going in no certain direction. 



40. The big fish is beaten stiff in the tide of quick dashing waves. 



41. Lo ! there it comes ! the canoe of Pakia^^ is fleetly sailing hither. 



42. I big black-and-white sea-gull, flying aloft there ; settle down hither on (the) 

 sea from the sky. 



43. ! Taane l^^ enwrap (me), involve (me), with the garment of careless insensibility, 

 that so I may quietly float to the shore. 



44. Lie quietly down, young chief, on the sea, which was purposely becalmed (for 

 thee). 



45. Carry safely forward thy brave swimming man to the shore, 



[Possibly, there is some omission, or portion lost, here, W. C] This, 

 which follows, is the ending of the powerful and celebrated charm, which 

 enabled Paikea to keep on swimming, and by it make his way through the 

 ocean. In conclusion, he called on his ancestor, on Hikitaiorea ; saying: — 



46. " Hikita ! ! here am I making a great fish of myself. 



47. Hikita ! Hikitaiorea, ! lo ! I am making a (drifting) waterlogged- white- 

 pine canoe of myself. 



48. Hikita, ! Hikitaiorea, ! I am making a sperm whale of myself, basking 

 and rolling in the deep. 



49. Hikita, ! Hikitaiorea, ! Tuparara I^* seek me hither, carry me to the 

 shore. 



50. Wehengakauki \^^ fetch me hither, carry me to the shore. 



51. Taane! fetch me hither, carry me to the shore, to my own land ; on to the very 

 shore there ; to my father indeed, on the shore, there away : alas ! alas ! " 



Then (he) warmed, cheered, and consoled himself, by remembering the 

 name of another of his ancestors, who was called Mataiahuru, {lit. by, or 

 through, the warm comforting sea, or tide,) and so recollecting, he cried: — 



52. " Mataiahuru ! Mataiahuru ! through the warm sea, through the warm water- 

 tide, let my own skin now become warm ; (let it now) become as if it were verily basking in 

 the heat of the noon-tide sun suddenly shining on my own skin ; let it now be, as if by 

 the blaze of the fire brightly kindled up, that it may become hot." 



And with [or through) these last words, Paikea caused himself to possess 

 comfortable and warm feelings. And so Paikea, at last, reached the shore, 

 at (a place called) Ahuahu. 



12 Another of Paikea's ancestors. 



13 Taane is now, at last, invoked, to make him just as a tree-trunk, or log of wood, 

 that so he may float unconsciously to the shore ; (see, also, verses 22, 51 ;) Taane, is, also, 

 used figuratively, for the Mainland, and is always placed in direct opposition to his enemy 

 the Ocean. 



1* Names of two more of his ancestors. 



