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Ka tito an, ka tito au, ka tito au, 
Kia Kupe te tangata, 
Nana i tope tope te whenua, 
Tu ke a Kapiti, 
Tu ke Mana, 
Tu ke Ara pawa. 
Ko nga tohu tena, 
A taku tupuna, 
A Knpe, nana i waka-tomene 
Titapua, 
Ka tomene an te wkenua-e-. 
I sing, I sing, I sing, 
Of Knpe, the man 
Who cut off the land, 
Stands apart Kapiti, 
Stands apart Mana, 
Stands apart Ara pawa. 
These are the signs 
Of my ancestor, 
Of Kupe, who went over 
Titapua, 
Who went over the land. 
It was from the account Kupe gave when he reached 
Hawaiki, that other canoes came ; six are said to have 
arrived together. The chief of this second expedition was 
Turf, he is universally allowed to have been the first person 
who settled on the western coast ; and by all the inhabitants 
of that part, was regarded as a kind of demigod.* 
Turi is said to have fled from Hawaiki on account of a 
quarrel, Popouakoako, his younger brother, at the ingather- 
ing of the kumara, presented one to Uenuku, the ariki, 
god of the- rainbow, who was so indignant at the smallness 
of the gift, that he swallowed both it and the offerer to- 
gether. Turi, in his anger, slew Oe-potiki, the son of Uen- 
uku, and eat him ; the manawa or lungs he carried to Uenuku, 
who having eaten them, perceived they were those of his own 
son ; he then uttered a powerful spell ; Kongo rongo, the 
wife of Turi, overheard him utter this karakia : — 
Horu horu taka manawa i a 
Hawe Potiki, 
Ka utaina ki runga te wata 
a maia, 
Runa mai rongoe, runa mai 
rongoe, hae, 
My spirit shudders for Hawe 
Potiki. 
I place his liver on the altar, 
and listen, 
Great be the assembling, great 
be the assemblage to avenge 
his death. 
* When Turi also arrived he found the land still soft, it had not been quite 
dry and firm, for as my informant stated, it was very soon after Noah’s flood 
that he came. 
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