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TRADITIONS AND LEGENDS. 
Turi then sent her back to listen, when she heard the 
second spell : — 
Tikina atu te tini o nga ti Bring me the many, 
rongotea, 
Wakataka mai, kia tini, Of nga ti rongo tea, 
Kia mano, Let many, let a multitude fall, 
Kia ngakia te mate oe-potiki, Let oe-potiki work death. 
Koreka te kai mua, The first vengeance 
Runa mai rongo e — , Is sweet, assemble 
Ka runa ha-i Let all who hear assemble. 
When Turi heard that this karakia had been uttered, he 
went and brought his canoe, Aotea, from his father-in-law, 
Toto,* Turi embarked, but he forgot in his haste the tata , 
baler, of his canoe, which was called Tupua oronoku ; his 
paddle was named Kautu hi te rangi. The pukeko, the rat, 
the green paroquet, the moeone, a small bronze beetle, the 
awato, the grub of a sphinx moth, which preys on the 
kumara, the kumara, the karaka, the native calabash, were 
taken with him, also his god, who was carried by his priest 
Tapo ; but before he had proceeded far, he pushed Tapo 
into the sea, for his supposed filthiness. Maru grumbled at 
the unjust slight showed to him, and said by the mouth 
of Tapo, if you leave without my servant on board, you will 
never reach Nukuroa, New Zealand ; place me on the out- 
rigger, tu ama , and we shall reach Uku-rangi, New Zealand. 
Turi consented and took him again on board; he went on 
shore at Motiwatiwa, there he killed his dog Iki iki rawea, 
there Potoru eat him, became deranged by doing so, and 
was lost with his canoe in the Gulph of Parata.f 
Turi landed at Wangaparaoa, where he planted the karaka, 
* Another tradition states, that Toto built his canoe in a small river named 
Tau-toru, and when finished, gave it to his son-in-law Turi, who made a sail 
for it, which they called Mata o rua , and sailed to Witi Marama. 
f Te Waha o te Parata. It was supposed that the ebb and flow of the tide 
is occasioned by the ocean rushing down the throat of Parata and being 
vomited out again ; in this way a very broken sea was supposed to be occa- 
sioned. Kupe had a narrow escape from the Korokoro o Parata ; hence the 
saying, no canoe can go where Kupe went. 
