[4]Hom. Il., 2-484. Invocat. to Muses:— Tell me now, O Muses, ye who dwell in Olympus; For ye are goddesses, and are present, and know all things, But we hear only rumour, and know not anything.
[5]Hecuba, l. 533-9.
[6]Whose wife was Hine-titamauri de quâ infra.
[7]Whose wife was Puhaorangi de quâ infra.
[8]Tamatea was settled at Muriwhenua, and his son Kahuhunu was born there. The latter went on a journey to Nukutauraua near the Mahia, and there married Rongomai-wahine, having got rid of her husband Tamatakutai by craft. Tamatea went to bring him home, but on their return their canoe was upset in a rapid, near where the river Waikato flows out of the lake Taupo, and Tamatea was drowned.
[9]This karakia is the most antient example of the kind. It is now applied as suggestive of a peaceable settlement of a quarrel.
[10]Ha=kaha.
[11]([1], [2], [3]) Quaedam partes corporis genitales.
[12]Katahi ka tohungia e Tane ki tona ure.
[13]These were all ancestors of the race of Powers of Night.