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6. Mo tai tang at a ran. —A saying for the number and power of 
the Nga ti rau kawa. 
7. Nga ti awa te toki, te tanga tanga i te ra. —The fastening or 
tying of the toki (hatchet) cannot be loosened by the heat of the 
sun, to show that no attacks would weaken them. 
8. Te tear aka i ruia mai i rung a 0 Rangi atea. —The karaka, 
which Avas sown on Rangiatea, a mountain of Hawaiki, too great to 
be overlooked. 
9. j E kore Taranaki e ngaro lie harakeke to ngai nui, no roto no 
Waiwiri. —Taranaki cannot be destroyed; it is like the flax plant, 
which is nourished every year by the dead leaves of the former, 
which lay around the roots. 
10. Rangi tilii te upoko, walca herehere. —A motto for Rotorua. 
11. Nga ti Maru kohao rau. —Nga ti Maru is like a hundred eel 
holes, referring to the many little scattered divisions of this tribe. 
12. Waikato horo pounamu. —A bluff at the Waikato heads, where 
many canoes have been lost, and chiefs droAvned ; hence applied to 
Waikato, as a chief-destroying- tribe. 
13. Nga ti paoa taringa rahi rahi. —Nga ti paoa have thin ears, 
or sensitive ones ; they cannot brook an insult. 
14. Puhi tanhva rau. —A saying for the Nga puhi, similar to that 
for Waikato. 
15. Nga puhi o te arawa. —The bunches of the pigeon’s feathers 
of the arawa. The Nga puhi are very indignant at this saying. 
HE KOAUAU, OH MUSICAL PIPE. 
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