After a short conversation with the Natives last night I dismissed them all from the hut but the old ferryman Ekeve who was to waken me early in the morning. Got up at 1/2 past 5 had a wash in the Turakina river on the banks of which stands the Pa. Met an old woman going to the river ejaculating a prayer or incantation in memory I supposed of some departed friend. The words she used considering herself quite unobserved and therefore expressing the natural emotions of her mind were E kui e korau mo koe, or O