deeply for her pains, and her hopes that it might have been a son to avenge the death of her father. She gave her the name Te Aomihia (the cloud that was welcomed); that is, the clouds which her father welcomed when he put to sea to his death. She conceived again while she and her husband were living away at Opotiki. She was still mourning for her father. As she was mourning, the child moved violently in her womb. Then she uttered this saying: ‘Ah, move thou violently within me, a son, It is for thee to avenge the death of my father.’ The child was born a son. She gave him as a name the name of his grandfather, Tumoanakotare-i-whakairia-oratia (Tumoana-kotare, who was suspended alive). This was shortened, when they called him, to Tuwhakairiora. She cherished her child, having constantly in mind that the death of her father will be avenged by her child. She performed the ceremony following his birth and the place where she did so was called Te ewe o Tuwhakairiora. The tohungas tended the child with their incantations — Whakanihoniho, Whangawhangai, Ihotaua,*The names of incantations intended to produce strength and courage. and other incantations. He grew up and came to man's estate, constantly hearing the tohungas who were tending him speaking ever of the saying of his mother. He had taken part in sportive contests,†These contests beginning in sport ofter ended in bloodshed. and had smitten his man. He had taken part further in serious engagements; he had gone into the very heat of the battle; he had gathered in a bundle‡The okooko was a regular form of karo. and turned aside the weapons which beset him on all sides like faggots in a fire. He had won the pitched battle at Paengatoitoi. His fame as a warrior had gone abroad; he had acquired the emblems of bravery in battle whereby the enemy is overcome. At last he bade adieu to the tribe. ‘Farewell! I go in accordance with the saying of my mother, which is still repeated, and which I still hear; it was perhaps because I was moving violently within her that she said:— “Ah, move thou violently within me, a son, It is for thee to avenge the death of my father’.” The tribe knew that the death of his grandfather, Poroumata, was the reason Tuwhakairi-