NATIVE SONG. 283 
Ua tu ta repo i Hiona : 
Pura ta onohi i ta u i ta repo. 
O Tauai, O Tauai, aroha wale 
Te aina i roto o te tai, 
E noho marie oe I roto o te tai, 
E hariu ai te aro i rehua. 
Pura ta onohi i ta matani, 
Ta tatau ta iri onionio, 
Ta repo a Taii i Pohaturoa, 
Te a i Ohiaotalani, 
Ma tai te aranui e hiti ai 
I te one i Taimu, 
Ma uta i ta tuahivi, 
Te aranui i hunaia. 
Narowale Tirauea i te ino. 
Noho P^i Tirauea, 
I tahu mau ana i te rua. 
* Atooi. t Districts. 
$ The great volcano. 
Thrown up was the earth (or dust) 
at Hiona : 
Red were the eye-balls with the 
dust. 
O Tauai,* O Tauai, loved be 
The land in the midst of the sea, 
Thou dwellest quietly in the midst 
of the sea, 
And turnest thy face to the plea¬ 
sant wind, 
Red were the eye-balls with the 
wind, 
(Of those) whose skin was spotted 
with tatau. 
The sand of Tau (lay) at Pohatu¬ 
roa,t 
The lava at Ohiaotalani.t 
By the sea was the road to arrive 
At the sandy beach of Taimu, 
Inland by the mountain ridges, 
The path that was concealed. 
II id was Tirauea § by the tempest. 
Pelt || abode in Tirauea, 
In the pit, ever feeding the fires. 
J North peak of the volcano. 
|| Goddess of volcanoes. 
They continued chanting their song, and thus 
we passed through their plantations, and groves of 
cocoa-nut trees, till we reached his father’s house, 
where a general effusion of affection and joy pre¬ 
sented itself, which it was impossible to witness 
without delight. A number of children, who ran 
on before, had announced his approach ; his father, 
followed by his brothers, and several other rela¬ 
tions, came out to meet him, and, under the shade 
of a wide-spreading kou-tree, fell on his neck, and 
wept aloud for some minutes; after which, they 
took him by the hand, and led him through a neat 
little garden into the house. He seated himself 
on a mat on the floor, while his brothers and 
sisters gathered around him; some unloosed his 
sandals, and rubbed his limbs and feet; others 
clasped his hand, frequently saluting it by touch- 
