WAR CEREMONIES. 
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Hikihiki taiaroa, tai notinoti Lift up your weapon with a 
piopio. loud, loud cry.* 
Each tribe, or Hapu, had its own Tau, or war cry ; that of 
Mamaku’s tribe in Upper Wanganui is — 
Unu unu te puru o tuhua, Pull out the plug of the inland 
tribes, 
Maringi te wai o Puta. Pour out the water of Puta. 
When the hostile parties at last were inclined to make 
peace, they met together, and repeated the following ka- 
rakia : — 
Ka hongi maru, ka hongi ki 
a Uenguku. 
Ka hongi a Uenguku ki a 
Maru. 
He apito, he awanga. 
Mania te mania, weo te weo. 
Korero ka toe toenga nui 
karanga ra. 
Tena ano ka riro i a Uenu. 
Taku waewae te maku i te 
uru Hawaiki. 
He pito aruhe he pito ko- 
rero. 
Maru salutes Uenguku. 
Uenguku salutes Maru. 
A curse and its removal. 
A slipping of the foot met with 
a slipping of the foot. 
Angry speeches met with angry 
speeches. 
A bitter contention departs at 
Uenguku’ s call. 
My foot slips away from the 
offspring of Hawaiki (the 
angry race). 
Let the end of a piece of fern 
root be the end of our talking. 
Maru the god of war — Uenguku the god of the rainbow, the sign 
of fine weather after a storm. 
The usual way of proclaiming war and inviting friends 
and allies to join in it was by sending baskets of human 
flesh to them. Immediately after a battle the bodies of the 
slain were cut up, the bones taken out and the flesh packed 
up in baskets and sent by swift messengers into every part. 
Whoever received the present and partook of it, thereby im- 
* For much of this information, which relates to the Rarawa, I am indebted 
to the Rev. J. Matthews, of Kaitaia. 
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