The Hue Maori.

The vegetable eaten by the Maori [unclear: elden] days was the hue (gourd), [unclear: hue] was not brought from [unclear: Hawaki] it belonged to this land, to Toi. [unclear: An] obtained it from hie ancestor, [unclear: as] Putehue. When the warmth of [unclear: mer] began to be felt, the labour [unclear: planting] the hue began. It was [unclear: ted] on the fifteenth and sixteenth [unclear: of] the moon (kia Turu, kia Ra-kau-nui). That was the way in which the hue was made to grow in the olden time and here is the karakia:—

Pute-hue, kia tuputupu nui koe
Ka porotaka i nga ringaringa
Karakia kia ahuahu nunui koe.

The name of this hue was Putehue, and of this kind was the oko of Toi-tehua-tahi into which the kao of Hoaki and Taukata was put, the name of which oko was Tirana. This hue was not from Hawaiki.

The whakatauki of Putehue is:-Kongakakano o rotoia au hei utu waimoakumokopuna. Kotetehi o ngakakano he tane, tena e koreiawhaiuri. (The seeds within me shall become vessels to contain water for my descendants. One of those seeds is a male, but that shall not bear fruit).