Hino, the Apostate. 
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“ See Tati, thou cruel father, this is the place 
where I made sacrifice to Tahua the Shark with 
thy son, even as thou didst with Aimata, my 
daughter. Look thou, and see if I lie.” 
They looked, and lo! between the lips of the 
great shell stood up two white leg-bones, half a 
span high, and covered with torn, dull red 
flesh. 
“ Dost thou believe me now ? ” she said 
mockingly to her husband. “ At the time 
when the tide was low I stood thy boy up 
in the jaws of the paua —when the tide rose 
Tahua and U’umao and Mau, the shark gods, 
came and accepted the sacrifice.” 
Then Tati seized her by the hair and thrust 
his knife into her bosom, and Hino-riri died 
there out upon the reef. 
