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WHARE-KURA. 
the house invited him to enter by the door, but Monoa refused 
to do so; he remembered the advice which his father Whiro 
had given him ; he climbed upon the roof of the house to the 
pihanga, and there looking in, he saw the lungs of his brothers, 
which the priest was then waving to and fro in sacrifice; and 
this was the signal of flight to Monoa. When the men of the 
house perceived this, they went and pursued after him; he 
hastened his steps, at the same time uttering this spell:— 
Hopu kia, hopukia, 
Hopu ata, hopuata, 
E kore Monoa e mou, 
I to ra kumutia, 
Tuaka puakina, 
Te maiangi nui no tu, 
Te mahana no tu, 
Here huru hum au, 
Here take take au, 
Mere au iho, 
Eere au ake, 
I runga ano, tauranga, 
Te kuti kuti, taurauga, 
Te awe awe, 
Tuku atu au kia mangi a manu, 
Eerehoumea, 
Tatu xnai ata tu 
Earou ka hihiko, 
Ki te hau raro tukua, 
Tuku aiho i runga nei 
Taka te ruhi, 
Taka te ngenge, 
Huri papa, &c., 
Catch him, catch him, [you can, 
Catch the light, catch the light if 
Monoa will not be caught 
hi the day, 
He has arisen and got away, 
He is as light as the wind, 
Warm as the wind. 
I fly like feathers, 
I fly strong, 
I fly down, 
I fly up above, 
Upon the perch. 
Afar off upon the bat’s perch, out 
of reach, 
Leave me to escape as the bird, 
I fly as the oumea (a sea bird), 
Lie close to the earth, 
Embracing its surface, 
Let the wind blow above me, 
Weaiy the legs of the pursuers, 
let them he tired, 
Let the strong wind blow against 
them. 
Monoa fled ; he ran into the middle of a flock of kauwau’s 
(cormorants) but they could not conceal him ; he then ran 
into the middle of a flock of ducks ; there also he was not hid ; 
he next tried to conceal himself in a flock of kuakas, (sand 
pipers,) but in vain. He then hid himself in a flock of toreas, 
but to no purpose ; he next tried a flock of karoros, but there 
he was not concealed ; at last he ran into a flock of tara (a small 
sea bird seen in great flocks), and there he was completely 
