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KEINGA. 
into the Reinga and returned. One is said to have gone there, 
who stated, that when he jumped into the sea, he found it 
was of no great depth ; there was a large place below, into 
which the sun shone; he saw a door, which he tried to open 
in vain, it was fastened; so after having knocked some time 
to no purpose, he wisely determined to revisit the earth. 
Another man went down, and there married a lady, with 
whom he returned to his own place. After some time she per¬ 
suaded him to go back with her to the Reinga, so they went 
to the jumping place ; when they got there, she told him to 
go first, but giving the lady the precedence, he bid her take 
the first jump; after some dispute, she at last did so; her 
timid partner, changing his mind, then returned home, and 
left his wife in the Reinga! 
THE CARVING ON A TOMB. 
