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evening, he knew when it was time for him to leave off 
work, by the eels coming and coiling about his legs; his 
neighbours knew when he was at work, by the chips he 
made rising to the surface. The name given to his canoe 
was Tahuri te arorangi. This man was an ancestor of Turoa 
and Ihaia. 
Eaukura. 
Near the Moa awango stream which flows through the 
central plains at the base of Patea, there is a curious little 
serpentine lake, long and narrow, called Pake hiwi which is 
completely shut in by the mountains. A man named Eau- 
kura was bewitched and walked into this lake, when in, 
he kept going from one end to the other and round the sides, 
without being able to get out and he is ever doing the same, 
sometimes his head appears out of the water, and my informant 
stated that he had often seen him thus walking up and down 
with his head above the water. 
The Child of Takaraho who was stolen by the Fairies. 
The child of Takaraho wandered into the woods at the 
close of day. The fairy of the forest, te Tahae o te Koraha, 
found him and carried him off. Takaraho's husband went 
in search of the child, he heard him cry, and followed after 
but could not lay hold of him ; then he knew in his heart 
that the child was turned into a spirit, or atua, and therefore 
returned to the kainga. The child cried, all the men in 
the place heard ifc, they recognized the voice which was cry- 
ing, tried to find and lay hold of the child, but in vain, 
they could not do so, for whilst they were following the 
voice in one place, suddenly a different crying was heard in 
a distant spot on the other side of the mountain, therefore 
they concluded oh ! it is an atua, hence when a noise is 
heard which cannot be accounted for they say oh ! it is the 
child of Takaraho that is crying. 
