He alia te tai? 
Ka timu te tai. 
Hga tai o te tu! 
Ko waka rara. 
Ho tau na. 
Ma nga wai 
E tari taua. 
E tai. 
Homai te wai. 
Ka hi te kai. 
Ka whakarere te kai. 
E kai! 
Ari nui! 
Ari roa! 
Ari manawa-nawa! 
E Titi- 
rau-ma-ewa! 
E to kai moana! 
E roro ki walio! 
How fareth the tide? 
The *l; de I s ebbing. (Sea-food, dear to tl,„ 
Maori, will be provided.) 
Tides wliicli provide abundance of food t 
^ onder are the canoes. 
Tl!e C wateTs re slfa°D d ^ year 
Beards two along-(to the fishing grounds). 
wTfisli °the y °fo r od W s aterS ' (Be PTOpiti0US ) 
Abundantly, even to wasting of it 
Eat of it then! 
It is plenteous! 
It is lasting! 
Jt ea euraHefj ety (wh ® n n0t abulldailtl y pro- 
Thanks to the female sea-deity» 
Thanks for thy sea-foods! 
Impart thy lore to me! 
The bird might choose any of these phrases, repeating them 
aphazard or according to fancy, but at times, such perhaps as 
those when the poroporo berries made him talkative! he would 
“ th , r °" gil hls re P er toire m one effort. He seemed, apparently 
to introduce some of the quality of its characteristic expletive 
above* t ? onversatioil » for Henry Stowell, who made the 
sneakiu u ; “ what struck me about the 
manvZf- i tui W&S itS sibilanc y> ™,-chenei che 
tl ™ uwhln ’ and ?o on,” instead of Tenei te manuwhiri; but 
stSi^rtk^r^r 6 was ci t and under - 
tni frmn lb r , 1 ’ 18a8 > an original speech of a 
saiVl l < 6 PS , an ° ld man ° f Wa ™pa. “The people,” 
„ ’ T? re about to flee at night. The war-party became 
snee h « * ^ the Speeeb ° f a tui ‘ ma de but one 
speech, this is it: 
Moe araara, moe araara, 
Ka tau te manu ki runga o te pae; 
Ko-wheri, ko-wliera, 
Ka tiritiri, ka rearea ; 
Ka taka mai a Tu ki toona. 
Hiwa! kia liiwa! 
V •> 
^ eep wakefully, sleep wakefimy 
he bird settles upon its perch; 
(They) are opening out, 
(They) are scattering abroad; 
u (the war-god) had better come along for his own. 
He alert! be very alert ! 9 
