THE PA OF TE ARERO ON THE MANGA-NUI-A-TE-AO. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
T1NI-RAU. 
The natives have innumerable traditions, which are generally 
known, and no one who has any claim to be thought an orator 
would think his speech complete, if he could not find some 
appropriate sentiment from one of these traditions or songs, to 
enrich it. 
The following is a well known one, and though containing a 
great deal of the marvellous, it is still viewed as an historical 
account of some of their most distinguished ancestors, and 
of the commencement of their wars. 
Tini-rau was a great chief, some say of the middle island, 
but others of Hawaiki; he was celebrated for his fine form 
and his great vanity; he had several pools filled with beauti- 
