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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

The Story of Hine-ruapangl

The Story of Hine-ruapangl.

This person, Hine-ruarangi, [unclear: w] woman of olden times. She [unclear: li] the vale of Whirinaki, above Te [unclear: M] murunga. One day she was [unclear: pe] her canoe up the river and [unclear: went] up the Whirinaki, until she [unclear: could] see the valley on account of [unclear: the] cliffs on either side of the [unclear: river.] the river is very narrow at that [unclear: p] Then Hine arrived at the deep [unclear: pe] the river where her canoe was [unclear: s] by the taniwha (water-demon) [unclear: of] place. And the goblin [unclear: upse] canoe and Hine-ruarangi was [unclear: orow] destroyed by the taniwha which [unclear: d] at the whaititanga of Whirinak [unclear: a] the spirit of Hine became also [unclear: a] wha. Hine-ruar-ngi of Ngati-[unclear: w] was transformed into a [unclear: tipua.] appearance to this world is [unclear: ro] form of a kawau (graculus [unclear: va] cormorant). There is but the kawau at that place, no more [unclear: an] seen there, at that deep pool [unclear: in] page 41 Whiriuaki. And so Hine-ruarangi remains in the form of a kawau, and [unclear: a] token of death to our tribe, to [unclear: Ngati] whare. The sickness of no per-[unclear: is] unknown to that strange bird. [unclear: Three] days before death comes, (he [unclear: wau] is seen to fly over the village. [unclear: That] the sign of death. And then [unclear: all] people know that the person who [unclear: affected] by sickness will surely die. [unclear: e] kawnu still bears the name of [unclear: ne]-ruarangi, and may still be seen [unclear: that] place, and the-place of shelter [unclear: that] goblin is that clump of cab-[unclear: oge] trees by the cliff yonder, just [unclear: ave] the deep hole in the river, Heooi! [unclear: this] story ends.