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MISSIONARY TOUR 
O Tauai, O Tauai, aroha wale 
Te aina i roto o te tai, 
E noho marie oe I roto o te tai 3 
E liariu ai te aro i rehua. 
Pura ta onohi i ta matani, 
Ta tatau ta iri onionio, 
Ta repo a Tali 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 Pele i Tirauea, 
I taliu mau ana i te rua. 
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 spot¬ 
ted with tatau, 
The sand of Tali (lay) at Poha- 
turoa,f 
The lava at Ohiaotalani^ 
By the sea was the road to arrive 
At the sandy beach of Taimu, 
Inland by the mountain ridges. 
The path that was concealed. 
Hid was Tirauea\ bythetempest. 
Pele || abode in Tirauea, 
In the pit, ever feeding the fires. 
* Atooi.——t Districts.-1 North peak of the volcano.-§The great 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 presented 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 relations, 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 
