ColENso. — On a better Knoivledrje of the Maori Race. 47 



of -the Carnival in some countries preceding Lent ! " Waeroti and Waerota" 

 are the names of two places out of New Zealand (real or mytLical) not 

 unfrequently referred to, in this way, in their old poetry and myths ; and 

 often in conjunction with " Hawaiki : " lines, 3-7. 



III. A direction to the workmen to be ready early ; another indication of -their 



industrious agricultural habits : lines, 8-10. 



IV. A promise, that what was really necessary, on the part of the owners, or chiefs, 



should be there, allegorically personified : lines, 11-13. 

 V. Thakthe work should be throughout regularly performed : lines, 14-1.5. 



VI. A quiet, stately, fitting address, abounding in natural truths, made to the 

 kumara sets, personified,* about to be planted ; reminding them whence 

 their beneficial growth, etc., were to be obtained : (1) from nature, the sea- 

 breezes or summer-winds, and rains ; and (2) from their own action, — 

 growing and holding-on to the soil ; great need of this advice, as they were 

 always planted in the tops of raised light gravelly hillocksf : lines, 16-24. 



VII. The question proposed, — Whence the crop, or fiiture increase? (Carefully 

 note the response, made by the tohunga (priest), — the old, old, story! 

 semper idem) : lines, 25-28. 

 VIII. The invocation proper to Pani ; note its great simplicity, its gradations, and 

 its recurring refrain, repeated regularly six times : lines, 29-42. (The 

 tubers were to be placed " carefully and loosely, one by one," into the seed- 

 baskets, because they had commenced sprouting, and the sprouts were of 

 slender and dehcate growth.) 



IX, A premonition to the working-party: here are two statements made to the 

 workmen, as if from a pilot, or master, occupying a more commanding 

 situation, each one pregnant with suitable meaning : (1) the doors not yet 

 being closed, and (2) the bare floors not yet exposed to view ; meaning, the 

 seed not all planted, the work not yet finished : lines, 43-46. 

 X. The command to the working-party, to act on the favourable moment : 

 lines, 47-48. 



XI. Again an address to the kumara sets, stUl personified; as if mollifying the 

 command just given (somewhat of a lowering nature), and reminding them 

 of their ancient heavenly origin^ : lines, 49-50. 



XII. Another admonition to the working-party : lines, 51-53. 



XIII. The work (viewed as) done : lines, 54-55. 



XIV. A remark as to Pani's residence in the sky, out of sight : line, 16. 



XV, A reminder to Pani, to reward them after the manner of their own readily 

 believing her, — or the ancient legend, etc., — and, of their having acted upon 

 it : lines, 57-60. {N.B. This is the earliest meaning, in this sense, of the 

 word ivliakapono, that I have ever met with. It is now, and for the last 

 60 years, similarly used by the missionaries and others (also, in the Maori 

 translation of the Scriptures), ior faith; — the believing the matter spoken of, 

 or taught ; — the making-it-to-be-a-reality. A word, however, extremely rarely 

 used in their ancient recitals.) 



* See my conjecture, as to possible meaming of the name kumara, p. 34. 

 t See " Trans. N.Z. Inst.," Vol. XIII., pp. 8, 9. 

 I See, supra, pp. 35, 36. 



