THE PA OF TE ARERO ON THE MANGA-NUI-A-TE-AO. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
TRADITIONS AND LEGENDS. * 
The natives have innumerable traditions, which are gene- 
rally known, and no one who has any claim to be thought 
an orator would think his speech complete, if he could not 
find some appropriate sentiment from one of these to en- 
rich it. 
The following is a well known one, and though containing 
a great deal of the marvellous, it is still viewed as an histo- 
rical account of some of their most distinguished ancestors, 
and commencement of their wars. 
Tini-rau was a great chief, some say of the middle island. 
