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heard the cry of the kokako inland, and mistook it for the 
call of a man. Hua noa he reo te tangata, he exclaimed, and 
sent to see who it could be, but found no one. Not seeing any¬ 
thing of her, he set up a post there, and returned to Wanganui- 
a-te-ra, and thence again to Hawaiki; hence the saying— 
Hoki Kupe, e kore ia e hokimai, 
Come back, Kupe, be cannot return. 
Several extraordinary works are attributed to him ; such as 
severing the two islands asunder, thus forming Cook’s Straits, 
and also cutting off New Zealand from Hawaiki, to which it 
is said to have been previously united. (May there not be here 
preserved some remembrance of a grand Southern Continent 
being submerged). 
Ka tito au, ka tito au, ka tito au, I sing, I sing, I sing, 
Of Kupe, the man 
Kia Kupe te Tangata, 
Nana i tope tope te whenua, 
Tu ke a Kapiti, 
Tu ke Mana, 
Tu ke Ara pawa. 
Ko nga tobu tena, 
A taku tupuna, 
A Kupe, nana iwaka 
Tomene Titapua, 
Ka tomene au te whenua-e-. 
Who cut off the land, 
Stands apart Kapiti, 
Stands apart liana, 
Stands apart Ara pawa. 
These are the signs 
Of my ancestor, 
Of Kupe, who went over 
Titapua, 
Who went over the land. 
It was from the account Kupe gave when he reached Hawaiki, 
that other canoes came; six are said to have arrived together. 
The chief of this second expedition was Turi. He is univer¬ 
sally allowed to have been the first person who settled on the 
western coast; and by all the inhabitants of that part, was 
regarded as a kind of demi-god. 
Turi is said to have fled from Hawaiki on account of a 
quarrel. Popouakoako, his younger brother, at the ingathering 
of the kumara, offered one to Uenuku, the ariki, (the god of 
the rainbow,) who was so indignant at the smallness of the 
offering, that he swallowed both it and the offerer together. 
Turi, in his anger, slew Oe-potiko, the son of Uenuku, and 
eat him. The manawa or lungs he carried to Uenuku, who 
having eaten them, perceived they were those of his own son. 
He then uttered a powerful spell: — 
