8 Transactio)is. — Miscellaneous. 



20. The cooking-oven is baking badly ; 



21. Go on, bake away the baking-oven ! 



22. The oven baking above ! 



23. The oven baking below ! 



24. Eush to the fight, Space ! 



25. Eush to the fight, Sky ! 



26. Show forth (thy) valour ; 



27. Show forth (thy) valour {or, let it be seen) ; 



28. Eeturn from the charge — return ; 



29. Cause (it) to return. — It is ended.* 



His spell finished, he fed his own son Ira with the cooked heart of his 

 mother. Hence arose the proverb, — " Ira, devourer of the rich soft 

 interior,"! And that same saying has descended to his offspring, namely, 

 the tribe of Ngati Ira. 



* A few explanatory remarks on this spell are here offered: — 



V. 1 & 12. All sacred fires were necessarily fresh kindled, and that by 

 fire then and there obtained by friction. 



„ 2. Meaning, in accordance with national customs and observances. 



„ 3-6. Showing the high rank of the deceased lady. 



,, 8, 9. By (or according to, — in conformity with), Hineikukutirangi, etc. 

 These female personages were great ones of old ; Hineikukutirangi 

 was often invocated on their going to the deep-sea-fishing. This 

 name means the young-lady-who-drew-the-heavens- (or skies, or 

 clouds) together, ( ? to prevent the storms and squalls from bursting 

 forth) : see the charm recited over Eongoua (p. 11), line 6, and 

 note thereon ; where, I think, these two personages are also 

 alluded to : see, also, a similar sacrifice made by XJenuku (p. 15), 

 and note the like names of his two mysterious ceremonial 

 garments. 



,, 10, 24-29. Celestial signs, of warring clouds, etc., are here referred to, 

 as finally denoting approval. See Notes 2 and 4 to Paikea's spell 

 (p. 21). 



„ 13, 14. " Towards the west," — the quarter of the setting sun, and of 

 death, etc. See Essay on the Maori Eaces, " Trans. N. Z, Inst.," 

 Vol. I., § 39. 



,, 15, 16. Indicating his being a strenuous upholder of their ancient 

 traditions, customs, etc. 



,, 17. As said by the hero Whakatau, — War-song, 3, p. 68, " Trans. 

 N. Z. Inst.," Vol. XIII., — and always meaning the opposite. 



,, 22, 23. May mean oneness of action ; i.e. what I am doing here on 

 earth is also now being done in the sky. 



t The word used here is a curious and uncommon one, especially in this sense, 

 and, as such, it is almost obsolete. Primarily it denotes the soft, prized, central parts 

 of the Maori gourd (hue), of a water-melon, etc., though it has several other allied root- 

 meanings. 



