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or necklaces composed of the nut of the fragrant 
pandanus odoratissimus. When we reached the 
house where his sister lived, she ran to meet him, 
threw her arms around his neck, and, having affec¬ 
tionately embraced him, walked hand in hand 
with him through the village. Multitudes of 
young people and children followed, chanting his 
name, the names of his parents, the place and 
circumstances of his birth, and the most remark¬ 
able events in the history of his family, in a lively 
song, which, he afterwards informed us, was com¬ 
posed on the occasion of his birth. The following 
fragment of the commencement, which I after¬ 
wards wrote down from the mouth of one of his 
aged relatives who was with us, will suffice as a 
a specimen, the whole is too long for insertion : 
FRAGMENT OF A SONG 
Inoa o Mauae a Para, 
He aha matou auanei? 
O Mauae, te wahine horua nui, 
Wahine maheai pono. 
Tuu ra te Ravaia 
I ta wahine maheai, 
I pono wale ai te aina o orua. 
Owerawahie i uta iTapapala. 
Tupu mau u ore te pari. 
Oneanea te aina o Tuaehu. 
0a tu ra te manu i te pari Oharahara 
Ewaru te po, e warn te ao, 
Ua pau te aho o na hoa maheai, 
1 te tanu wale i te rau, a maloa. 
Ua mate i te la, 
Ua tu nevaneva. 
I ta matani, ua ino auaurere. 
• Mother of the young man. 
ON THE NAME OF MAUAE, 
Name of Mauea,* (son) of Para, 
How shall we declare ? 
O Mauea , woman famous at horua,^ 
Woman tilling well the ground. 
Give the fisherman, 
To the woman (who) tilleth the 
ground ; 
Happy will be the land of you two. 
Burnt were the woods inland of 
Tapapala. 
Long parched had been the precipice. 
Lonely was the land of Tuaehu. 
The bird perched on Oharahara 
rocks. 
Eight the nights, eight the days, 
Gone was the breath of those who 
help the tillage. 
With planting herbs (they) were 
fatigued; 
Fainting under the sun. 
(They) looked anxiously around. 
By the wind, the flying scudding 
tempest, 
t Horua, a native game. 
