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RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE MAORI.
CH. iv.
At Pirongia there.
This the dreaded tribe is undone,
Tiki[1] and Nukupouri[1]
And Whanawhana[1]
And I Rangi-pouri:[1]
I carried off the woman,
I the first aggressor:
I went to enter the house of Ruarangi,
To stretch out my hand,
To touch the Maori skin.
The boundary is oven-marked,
To prevent its being moved aside,
To guard the wife in safety.
He thought the power of his karakia would appear; but it could not conquer the devices of the Maori tohunga; for how could it prevail against the cooked food, and the oven-stoves, and the kokowai, and the many other devices of the tohunga. Hence it was seen that the power of karakia was not possessed by the Fairies. The only power given to them was to smother men.
