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PUA BREAD. 
are steeped for nearly a year in running water, to get rid of 
their bitter and astringent quality, they are then put into a 
basket (pu) which has been plaited very close, and beaten upon 
a stone with a small wooden club ; this being sufficiently done, 
they are sifted through other closely -plaited baskets ; the husks, 
thus separated from the pulp, are thrown away, and the latter, 
which resembles dark olive-colored flour, is kneaded into cakes 
with a little water ; these being wrapped up in leaves of the 
rangiora, are placed in a native oven ; when cooked, they 
have much the appearance of very brown bread, and are 
highly esteemed by the natives, though too oily to suit the 
taste of most Europeans ; hence the proverb, which is used 
by a man when he is waked out of his sleep to eat, Kia 
wctkaoho koe i taku moe, ko te Watutureiarua — “ When 
you disturb my sleep, let it be on account of the arrival of 
te Watutureiarua/-’ the first person who made bread from 
the hinau . 
The natives sometimes cooked it by pouring a quantity of 
the flour into water which had been heated by putting hot 
stones into it, the only way they formerly had of boiling 
water ; in that state it was called rerepi. 
MAORI WEAPONS. 
