A FISHING HUT. 
CHAPTER X. 
FISHING CEREMONIES. 
The Religious Ceremonies connected with fishing were very- 
singular. The day before they went to sea, they arranged 
all their hooks around some excrement, and used a karakia, 
which will not bear repeating ; in the same evening the 
following invocation was uttered : — 
E te pu nei, e te weu nei, 
E ki konei hoki koe, 
Ka wano te tama nei, 
Ka tangiwaraue, 
Ko ia ka uru atu, 
Ko ia ka urumai 
Ko ia ka uru to hai, 
Keuwea mai te pu mai, 
Te weu mai te keuwenga mai, 
0 te matua nui, i a matua 
nui ra, 
Ko ia i te kewenga mai, 
0 te matua nui ra, ko ia hai. 
0 ye roots and little roots, 
Soon will your trunk depart 
(being made into a canoe), 
Soon will it be separated from 
its branches, 
Soon go out to sea, 
Soon return again ; 
Soon will it be finished ; 
Lift up the trunk, the root of 
the great father remains, 
separated from him, 
This is the launching of the 
great father the trunk, truly 
this. 
