The tale of Na Utonga. Typescript.pdf

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17a Atia m& IJei ia 2e4®as3li"oi'o i tlielr cMldren xjgtq tkree girls, t/liose aatios vjere ITel Ilsli'lm tlie

Eldest, Eel I2dL^2oi the niddle, and Eel IkljjW- the YOfasest, Behold! ITel IldL^si the Yoiiagest hegaa to Qeastruate;

ji^he said to her fet'.o::' oiid aother, "Alas! I em hleediiagj"

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Ehey anst/ercd, "Beejiei" VAioa she heard that \7ord she vjas

ashmedj she arose ond left theo in anger She so'J^iit the seed of her tree called Ziaatoi'o, and nhen she fomd i t she tooh and planted i t in a far place. She dug a hole for the soedj she thr^et/ the seed to 111(^1 so that i t fell into the hole, and thus sang she -

I -ferov/ i t on hi£^,

I tliro\/ on py plant To Idiiatore,

I hare no strength,

Eor 1 faint in the srai-elare

And giddiness (t-ches eel#

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A short tiee pdssed, and heholdl the tree gret; great:

I t reached Heaven# Then clinhed tliat uoncii into the crcot

of her tree# Khen she arrircd in Eeuvan, there stood hefor©

her a iTOiaan naned ITei ni-lnra'wa (Woman Of-heairen)« Uei ni-lcnrtr.a called her into her house and cared for her aa h' yja-tl .(adopted ohlXd).

sh^ Eel the Xoungcst had hem sone tluo to

He»Tto, she imr^ed Kli^ta*ni»]lmraxm CKirat0,->of~heaTCn), an^

l^h^.liad ane child, tishose namo ^s lie! 171—laj.raim#

Cno©, viien tlmt ohlid ime going ahout idly , she mxi % pMlitous tree of uhich tlie fruit ms ripe, and thus slio

said to her fatheri "I ohaU oltoh this tree to plucle (oTm)

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its fruit He answered, ^vmmm cltohs treon^

hut too said, "I simU todeed olimh it^#

She climhed np, and heholdl the hrtmoh of the tree that turned West hrohe -torn she uio-fflitGd upon i t , and she

foXd to Earto# She fell upon the land named Aha^tiicu#

tMl lAis feU, she ehengeft her naiae to Kom^ot

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TO (plaited onclior xt)pe), aaid one laniii (ad^e vri*iai Biiell lkiKieA&.

"blade)j tmd one (dip net), and one

(pole iTitli lasiiecl-on 03?oo3£ £ot pulling doim "bitnielieo or fenit), and one ^ {fisii linG of ooeomit flbz^e 05? flciiB

"barfe), cmd one maaolai (cllnbing Btop cut in a tx^oe ti-ank), and one noIroiJDisa (brolcn coeonut idblet mjed in deatli-aagle),

and ImJ^ii-fnatoiiea. (noosed pole or otiolt for eatcMng

eels)* lilien all these -things are read^, Iio sboH coao to

oe tdth Ms Qtmoo^,

So Ua Utonga rcfannod to Ala^tilra cmd Irailt a eanoo

Mtli seirente^ sails, and made tlie tliix^s tiiieh 2ej-mtl/

imd said. XlhGn all tilings hotg tq&Q^ lie put up one sail and *70jagGd baclc to *i^e place tiwTc

aonata amitGd hin. Shea -iSioy set foi'tli together, Mtli

the cMld Ilei Ila-fcc^noho, to idolt the snai md noon in -the

East. 21ie^ sped Bisttiards* I^ien tliey i^erG far fron land thc^ met vjith a deep-^sea oc-fcopus, t/hioh held tholr eenoe so that i t could not go foanmrds ITa Utongn v/oat do^m into the sea uith Ms adzo and cut its tentoGloa to pleees so

•that i t diod. Tkm canoe sped fostfflrd tomrds the East, Again, they came to -fcho land of lorgo earod folk

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tjMoh -mo called 5!aho^n4noto, and ITaltum, end Ka-fea-teJcoli-.cie.

There -they stayed for & long ijlille4 hut aftonmrds they set out again to Eastvmid, and they yoyaged until the

seTenteen sails of their canoe nero all Tjom out. shcy

came to the annd -tot is at the side of hoavon to Eastimrd,

h^caid all Mnds, uMch %ms called Malam. Kiore ms no end of that land to Horth end no cmd to Southf i t uproad

OTOr the north and the South and iho Miadle, as It tjero tlie

containing vM.1 f'bono'faoHn) of the eoa*

There ms » rock in the sea -siMch ms the place f/hero

mm rested whaa he came ahove the msteam horigon,

.nesehored thoir canoe to that rock mi H^aitei

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t/heii lie eoae, tliej eaid, ^Sfegr sSJi^d-acso^ter IJel Zlia-tef-ndfeo

loves C desii'QS "i^iee)". As for tJio 01m, lie

mistjeved, «G-ive ^oa-^ to tlie eiooi1i» for slie ijlll "be Ixcaiied

to doa'Kh. tiitli uc",

SliGj sailed ataj imtil the^r cciae to cmotlier locl; in

tlie sea •« tJie pXaoe wlaero the noon Jested • and there they

aneliored theis' canoe, IThcai the noon oane, they said,

^dloon, tiTy^iSrond-dan^ter loves tpjeC^t, As for the mo^.

she toolc Hel Ha'&^^olco and caraded her amy. And froa

that time antil noi7 the tjori: of Hei Hata4no&o i s to s i t in the noon and plolt mts all nij^iit,

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This Cpoari: of the ^ale^ Is flElahed,

Behold! ispoho to Ba TTtoafSa,

saying, ^lall no i^torn or ^mu go sl^^t^scejing

la Heaven?" Ha Htoiiga ans'jorod, "Wo shaH Indood go '

si£iit-GGeing", So they monnted to Heaven, aad oeuae to |

& groat viiere people \7ere ^thered together, •

^Hhose vjere erael foil:? iiiey said to eaoh other, ns Mil these strangers".

fhere stood "beside the single cooonat trtso,

in the triirfe of i^iloh lived an ^onons centipede, vhe

people told Ha Htenga to clinT) that tree, hut iTci fitdaahine

his asdSi. i^spered in his ear, "&ero Is a centipede

in the trtxtsk of -the tree vMoh viH oat "^ee, iviir»

adF.o vrfltli thee"^i Ko tools his ads?e and oHmhed the tree,

ont it to piooes, so that it died, 53ae people t^ere j

afraid xitm they saw the xmTls: of his adze, cmd Ihey trdei.

his honoe-^place on Atwo^ftilai*

heave this| ^esafc of the other Ohild Of Ha Htiafifc

m%. mti^nft, stayst on Ali^tika ximm sister w&s

O&moa to the laoott, Hel lial^iom reaMasoi %• the

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