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by the rimu, totara, toatoa, and other trees having red wood, 
which accounts for their being so. 
Afterwards Maui Atamai accompanied his brother Maui 
Ware-ware to the woods to get makaka, a strong flexible 
climbing plant, used for the manufacture of eel pots. Maui 
Ware -ware made an opening at the end of his eel pot for the 
fish to enter in by, but as he used no precaution to hinder 
them from going out again, they only eat the bait and went 
away. But Maui Mohio, made a tohi, or door, to the entrance 
into his eel pot, to hinder the fish from escaping ; so that 
whilst his elder brother had no fish, his eel basket was filled. 
On their return home, Maui Mohio privately removed his tohi, 
lest his contrivance should be known; so when his disappointed 
brothers saw that his eel basket was filled, they inquired the 
cause of his success, and examining his basket, found to their 
surprise that it was just the same as their own. Afterwards 
the elder brothers made some spears for birds ; all their points 
were smooth ; but Maui added a barb to his ; when they went 
to the woods to spear birds, they wounded, but could not 
secure them, as they slipped off the smooth point. Maui secured 
all his, as the barb of his spear held them firm. When they 
returned home, Maui privately removed the barb, and 
put on the smooth point again, which his brothers had made, 
that they might not find out the cause of his success. 
Afterwards the elder brothers made some fish-hooks ; Maui 
did the same, but his were barbed, whilst theirs were smooth. 
They went to the sea; his brothers caught fish, but they escaped: 
Maui secured all his. His brothers called out to him, let us see 
your hook; he held up one that was unbarbed like their own. 
They returned home, but without fish ; Maui the cunning- 
only had any. His brethren were very angry, and turned 
him out of their canoe; they told him and Irawaru, his brother- 
in-law, to go to sea in a canoe by themselves. Maui gave the 
baits to him to put on the hooks, but, like a greedy dog, he 
eat them all up. This made Maui very angry, and when they 
landed he called to his brother-in-law to go on before and 
lie down, as a skid. Irawaru did so, and Maui dragged 
the canoe over his back, and, behold ! it was broken ; 
