CHAPTER VI. 
FISHING CEREMONIES. 
The Religious Ceremonies connected with fishing were very 
singular. The clay before they went to sea, they arranged all 
their hooks around some human excrement, and used a karakia, 
which will not bear being repeated ; in the same evening they 
uttered the following invocation :— 
E te pu nei, e te weu nei, 
E ki konei hold koe, 
Ea wano te tama nei, 
Ka tangiwaraue, 
Ko ia ka uru a tu, 
Ko ia ka unrniai 
Ko ia ka uru to hai, 
0 ye roots and little roots, 
Soon will your trunk depart (being- 
made into a canoe), 
Soon will it be separated from its 
branches, 
Soon go out to sea, and thence re¬ 
turn, 
Q 
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