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TINI-RAU. 
Tini-rau-e. Pie answered, -e- Your wife is unwell, and very 
near her confinement, she wishes you to catch her some fish. 
Tini-rau went on board his canoe, and reached his wife’s abode. 
He demanded, What is the matter with you ? Hine-te-iwaiwa 
replied, my child, which is about to be born. When he had seen 
her, he made a fence of nettle-branches and briars bound with 
flax, around her house, and left her, that she might not be able 
to leave. Her heart was very dark, at such treatment, and 
shortly afterwards the child was born. When Tini-rau heard 
of this, he went and began to open the fence of nettles and 
brambles. But being deeply grieved for his want of love, 
Hine-te-iwaiwa, cried to her brother, “ O Rupe,* come and 
take me and my child away.” Rupe flew down at once. 
When Tini-rau returned, Rupe with the child and its mother 
were gone, he had folded them up within his wings and flown 
away. Tini-rau called out as they went, “ O Rupe, bring 
back your sister and the child ! ” 
Hine-te-iwaiwa said to her brother, “Donot consent, O Rupe, 
rather give him back his child.” He gently let it fall, and 
Tini-rau caught it. He fed it with water, the child grew, 
and he named it Tu-huruhuru. One day, the children went 
to play at the teka,-j- some cast their stalks—they did not fly. 
Tuhuruhuru threw his, having first uttered this karakia : 
Taku teka nei, You are my teka, 
Ko te teka nawai, The teka of whom ? 
Ivo te teka na Tuhuruhuru, The teka of Tuhuruhuru. 
Te roko hina te rokohana. Overtake the other sticks aud arrive first. 
Jealous of his skill in throwing the teka, the children mocked 
him. There goes the teka of this bastard, where is his mother ? 
Tuhuruhuru heard their taunts, and when he returned home 
he demanded of Tini-rau his father, where is my mother ? 
Tini-rau replied, I don’t know; you can’t reach her ; the child 
demanded, but where is she, you do not tell me, lest I should 
go to her. Tini-rau replied, you are welcome to go, if you 
* Rupe was a pigeon and the parent of it. He was brother to Hine-te- 
iwaiwa ; he came from Hawaiki, to look for her 
t A game with fern stalks, which are thrown to see who can cast them the 
furthest, and hit a mark. 
