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TRADITIONS AND LEGENDS. 
He Matuku, aha te Matuku, 
Matuku tan tiaki, 
Tau aroaki, Tau aroaki. 
Te waka rangona manawa, 
Te korero te wakarongona 
a te Wananga, 
Wakatikaia, kia tika, Waka- 
tonu hia 
Kia tonn han e kia tonu, 
Ko te Matuku i hea, 
Ko te Matuku i Waingon- 
goro, &c. 
The bittern, what of the bittern ? 
The bittern, the guardian, 
The overlooker, the overseer, 
The imitator of the hum of men, 
Let your voice resound, 
That the enemy may be deceived, 
Be quite correct ; be perfectly 
correct, your imitation, 
The bittern from whence, 
The bittern from Waingongoro, 
&c. 
This was repeated to each of these rivers, Tangahoe, Hinga- 
hapa Patea, Whenua-kura, Waitotara. When the Matuku 
heard this incantation of Turi, he was strengthened to cry, 
hu, hu, hu, in the pa, and thus those who came, hearing his 
voice, thinking it was Turi, were afraid and fled away. 
A great love for Hawaiki, his country, then seized Turi; 
he committed suicide in the Patea by drowning himself, 
so concludes the tradition. The sites of Turks house, Ma- 
tangirei, and his kumara farm, at Patea, are still pointed 
out ; and an old man living there said, that in his early days, 
the land marks, which were sculptured stones, sixty in 
number, still remained ; but when the Gospel came, they 
destroyed them all. Turks well is yet in existence. 
Tradition oe Nga Hui and Tama te Kapua. 
Nga hui came from Hawaiki to see a quarrel between the 
Mata and the Pounamu, which had its origin in that island ; 
he landed on the East Coast, at Wangaparau, and came to 
Tauranga, and from thence to the Wairere and Taupo ; he 
afterwards crossed over to Kapiti, Arapawa, and Arahura, 
near Wakatupa; when he reached that place, he obtained 
the Pounamu, green stone, in a lifeless state, and there he 
laid hold of the Kaukau matua and Tukurangi, from thence 
he returned to the Arawa Mountains, there was the moa 
