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TIME. 
VI. — Hawio te toke o Turi. 
VII. — Waka mauruiho and Wakamanruake. These are 
the husbands of Hurike and Angake, and their 
daughters are Tioreore, the larger magellan 
cloudy and Tikatakata the lesser one, and Tai- 
keha and Ninikuru are their husbands. Ko te 
rangi mata nguku syn Tikatakata. The natives 
state they know what quarter the wind will blow 
from, by the position of the magellan clouds. 
VIII. — Mongoroiata, milky way, syn mangoroa. When 
distinctly seen it is a sign of a fruitless season. 
The milky way was a great taniwa, or reptile 
god, who has a large canoe on the other side of 
heaven called Kanetaka, having a man on board 
named Pupuki. 
IX . — Nga wata. This star belongs to Nga tuke a Tai- 
toru nana i takiri te ra te marama. 
Time. 
The New Zealanders, in former times, had no names 
for days, but only for nights ; it was by moons and stars 
they counted Time : perhaps this was handed down from 
remotest times, or arose from the idea that it was in the 
night everything grew ; they have therefore names for the 
different nights of the moon ; for they were indeed the chil- 
dren of the night, and not of the day, and in this respect 
resembled the other islanders of the South Seas, who had a 
similar way of reckoning, but it appears remarkable that 
they should not have a single name for any day in the year. 
These names also denote the state of the tide. They chiefly 
counted the moons by different stars as they were in the 
ascendant. 
Summer is named Raumati dead leaves, from its being 
the season when they fall ; there being but one deciduous 
tree in New Zealand, the ho hutuhutu, or New Zealand 
