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ITINERARY AND TRADITION SONG. 
Takina te tokotoko, ko Otaki ; 
Ka mehameha, e hine, ko Wai- 
mea ; 
Ka ngahae nga pi, ko Wai-ka- 
nae ; 
Ka tangi ko te mapu, e liine, 
Ka kite koe i a Wai raka ; 
Matapoutia. 
Poua ki runga, pona ki raro, 
Ka raran, e hine. Ka rarapa 
nga kanohi, 
And she remained immovable. 
Ko Wai-rarapa 
Te rarapatanga o to tupuna, 
E hine — ka moiki te ao, 
Ko te pai a Waitiri ; 
Knmea kia warea Kaitangata 
Ki waho ki te moana : 
Hanga te paepae, poua iho, te pou 
Whakamaro te rangi, ko Mere- 
mere : 
Waiho te Whanau, ko te punga 
0 tona waka ko te Awhema. 
Kati, ka waka mutu, e hine. 
When he carried his staff in a 
horizontal position, Otaki ; 
When he prayed, 0 daughter, it 
was Wai-mea ; 
When he looked out of the corner 
of his eye, Wai-kanae ; 
When he became weary, my 
daughter, he reached Wai-raka. 
He repeated an incantation, 
She became fixed above, and 
fixed below, 
My daughter, when his eyes 
glistened with delight, 
He called the place Wai-rarapa, 
It was the rejoicing of your an- 
cestor, my daughter. 
The sky became cloudless, 
On account of Waitiri’s good will. 
She then enticed Kaitangata out 
to sea : 
She placed the plank across, 
And drove it in a post to hold on 
by, called Meremere. 
She left to her offspring, Punga, 
the anchor of his canoe, 
As his name, Awhema. 
Enough, it is finished, 0 my 
daughter. 
Hau came in one of the canoes above mentioned. He 
undertook the journey to look for Wai-raka, his wife, who 
had eloped with a man named Weku ; upon reaching 
the first river, he named it, from its great width, Wanga- 
nui (the great mouth), passing on to the next river, he 
describes it as being so near that he could splash the 
water of the Wanga-nui as far, and, therefore named it 
Wanga-ehu (the splashed mouth), from tiheu , which signifies 
to splash, or bale water; the next was so near, that if he 
