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TRADITION OF KUPE AND TURI. 
Tikina atu te tiiii o nga ti rongotea, Bring me the many, 
Wakataka mai, kia tini, 
Kia mano, 
Kia nga kia te mate oe-potiki, 
Korcka te kai mua, 
Buna mai rongo e—, 
Ka runa lia-i- 
Of nga ti rongo tea, 
Let many, let a multitude fall, 
Let oe-potiki work death. 
The first vengeance 
Is sweet, assemble 
The rongo he, assemble. 
When Turi heard that this karakia had been uttered, he 
went and brought his canoe, Aotea, from his father-in-law, 
Toto.* Turi embarked, but he forgot in his haste the tata 
(baler) of his canoe, which was called Tupua oronoku ; his 
paddle was named Kautu ki te rangi. The pukeko, the rat, the 
green paroquet, the moeone (a small bronze beetle), the awato 
(the grub of a sphinx moth, which preys on the kumara), the 
kumara, the karaka, the native calabash, were taken with him, 
also his god, who was carried by his priest Tapo; but before 
he had proceeded far, he pushed Tapo into the sea, for his 
supposed filthiness. Maru grumbled at the unjust slight 
showed to his priest, and said by the mouth of Tapo, if you 
leave without my servant on board, we shall never reach 
Nukuroa (New Zealand); place me on the out-rigger (tu 
ama,) and we shall reach UJcu-rangi (New Zealand). Turi 
consented and took him again on board. He went on shore 
at Motiwatiwa, (thei - e he killed his dog Iki iki rawea,) there 
Potoru eat him, and he became deranged by doing so; and 
was lost with his canoe in the Gulf of Parata.f 
Turi landed at Wangaparaoa, where he planted the karaka, 
thence he sailed to the Aupouri (North Cape), thence to 
Aotea, and there he left his canoe, which was turned into a 
rock, which is still to be seen. He went inland, and named all 
the rivers Kawia, Marakopa, Mokau, Moakatino, Tangapo- 
* Another tradition states, that Toto built his canoe in a small river named 
Tau-toru, and when finished, gave it to his son-in-law Turi, who made a sail 
for it, which they called Mata o rua, and sailed to Witi Marama. 
f Te Waha o te Parata. It was supposed that the ebb and flow of the tide 
is occasioned by the ocean rushing down the throat of Parata and being 
vomited out again. In this way a very broken sea was supposed to be occasioned. 
Kupc had a narrow escape from the Korokoro o Parata; hence the saying, no 
canoe can go where Kupe went. 
