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ITINERARY AND TRADITION SONG. 
Kamehameha, ehine, koWai-mea; 
Ka ngahac nga pi, ko Wai-kanae; 
Ka tangi ko te mapu, e Line, 
Ka kite koe ia¥ ai-raka : 
Matapoutia; poua ki runga, poua 
ki raro, 
Ka rarau, e liine. Ka rarapa nga 
kanohi, 
Ko Wai-rarapa —te rarapatanga 
o to tnpuna, 
E hine —ka moiki te ao, 
Ko te pai a Waitiri; 
Kumca kia warea Kaitangata 
Ki waho ki te moana: 
Hanga te paepae, poua ilio, te poll 
Whakamaro te rangi, ko Mere- 
mere : 
Waiho te Whanau, ko te punga 
0 tona waka ko te Awhema. 
Kati, ka waka mutu, e hine. 
When he prayed, 0 daughter, it 
was Wai-mea; 
When he looked out of the corner 
of his eye, Wai-kanae; 
When he became weary, my 
daughter, he reached Wai-raka- 
He repeated an incantation, 
She became fixed above, and fixed 
below, 
And she remained immovable. 
My daughter, when his eyes 
glistened with delight, 
He called the place Wai-rarapa, 
It Avas the rejoicing of your an¬ 
cestors, my daughter. 
The sky became cloudless, 
On account of Waitiri’s good will. 
She then enticed Kaitangata out 
to sea: 
She placed the plank across, 
And drove in a post to hold on by, 
called Meremere. 
She left to her offspring, Punga, 
the anchor of his canoe, 
As his name, Awhema. [ter. 
Enough, it is finished, 0 my daugh- 
Hau came in one of the canoes above mentioned. The 
cause of the journey he undertook was to look for Wai-raka, 
his wife, who had eloped with a man named Weku. Upon 
reaching the first river, he named it, from its great width, 
Wanga-nui (the great mouth). Passing on to the next river, 
lie describes it as being so near that he could splash the water 
of the Wanga-nui as far, and, therefore, named it Wanga-ehu 
(the splashed mouth), from tilieu, which signifies to splash, or 
bale water. The next was so near, that if he felled a tree 
growing on the banks of the Wanga-ehu, the head of it would 
reach the river which he called Tura-kina (felled), from turaki , 
to throw down. Having to walk a considerable distance to 
the next river, he called it Tikei (a pace), from tikei, the 
