rapa ana kei whea te taunga atu ka porangi noaiho ka rere noatu ki tana rere. Hei te po anake tona haerenga ki te kimi i tetahi kai mana, ara i etahi kuri i te poa i te ropere i te maki. Ka mate ana te kuri ka tangi ia he nui tana tangi, ahakoa i tawhiti noatu nga tangata rongo tonu mai ki te tangi a tenei kuri. Ko nga kuri katoa i te puihi e rere noatu ana i te nui o te wehi i te rongonga ai ki te tangi a tenei kuri. Kaore ia e kimi i tetahi kai mana, kia tata mai rano te kuri ki tona taha, katahi ka ngau ia mate rawa. Kahore ia e ngau ki te mea ka ki tona puku i te kai; engari i te taima o tona hemonga i te kai i a ia e noho ana e moe ana i te awatea, ka kite atu ia i tetahi kuri e haere mai ana i tawhiti, ka haere ki te huna i a ia ki roto i etahi otaota, kei kite mai tetahi kuri i a ia. A ka tata noa tetahi kuri ki a ia, katahi ia ka tupeke ka ngau, tetahi patu ai ki tona waewae. Kotahi patu mate rawa te kuri me te hoiho hoki me nga kuri katoa mate rawa i te patu kotahi a tenei kuri. Ka mate tetahi kuri kaore ia e hohoro ki te kai, ka waha e ia ki tetahi wahi ngaro, ki reira kai ai. Mehemea ka kite te raiona i te hoiho me te tangata ano o runga, mehemea hoki te hoiho ka kite i te raiona ka tahuri te hoiho ki te whakataka i te tangata ka taka te tangata kaore te raiona e tahuri ki te tangata engari ka rere ki te whai i te hoiho nui atu tona hohoro i to te hoiho kaore e roa tona rerenga kua mau te hoiho kotahi ano patu ki runga ki te tuara o te hoiho mate rawa. Mehemea e hemo ana ia i te kai he nui tona hemokai. Mehemea ka kite ia i te tangata e kore ia e hohoro ki te ngau i te tangata mehemea kaore ia e kite i tetahi kuri ranei e haere ana katahi ia ka ngau i te tangata notemea kaore hoki ia e kite i tetahi kuri hei kai mana koia ka tahuri ki te tangata. Mehemea ka haere te tangata he pu ranei he aha ranei ki tona ringaringa ki te mea ka tutaki i a ia te raiona i te huarahi kauaka e rere te tangata engari me tu me titiro whakatau ki te raiona engari ia ka kino te titiro atu kia ahua riri kia pakari te tu, ka wehi te raiona, ka rere noatu i tana rere. Mehemea rere te tangata wehi i te raiona ka tupeke ki runga i a ia ka ngau. Mehemea te tangata piki ki runga i te rakau ko te raiona ka noho i raro i te rakau ki te whanga. Ki te mea tahuna etehi ahi i te po ka wehi te raiona. E wehi te raiona i te wepu. I te tangi ki te mea ka hemo ia i te kai ka tawhiriwhiri tona whiore. Ko tenei kuri he haere tua poururu me te tupe-kepeke haere. Na ki te mea ka haere nga tangata ranei me nga kuri 12 ki te mea tukuna atu ki te ngau i te raiona ka mate ia i nga kuri, engari i te mea kua kite mai ia i nga kuri e rere atu ana ki te ngau i a ia ka rere ia ki runga ki tetahi pukepuke tu mai ai, ka whakaaro a roto i tona ngakau. “E! he rahi ahau he ririki koutou.” Ka karapotia e nga kuri te raiona a poraruraru noa iho te raiona mate i nga kuri te ngau. Ko te mutunga tenei o te korero mo te raiona. He does not stay in one place; after a while the couple decide to move elsewhere. He does not travel in the day time to look for food but only at night. During the day he lies down and sleeps. Should a man find him asleep and throw a stone at him, he will suddenly bound up in confusion and run about in all directions. It is only at night that he looks for his food which consists of another animal such as a boar, a leopard or a monkey. When it kills an animal, it howls very loudly and although you may be some distance away, you can hear the roar of this animal. And all the beasts in the forest will take flight because of the great fear that overcomes them when they hear the roar of this animal. He does not search for food but when an animal gets close to him he will bite it until it dies. He will not bite it if his stomach is full of food, but when he is hungry even during his daytime siesta and he happens to see an animal appear in the distance, he will hide in the shrubbery so that the other animal will not see him, but as it gets close the lion will pounce and hit it with his paw. One blow from this paw will kill a dog and a horse; every animal is killed by one blow from this beast. After killing an animal the lion will not hurry to eat it but carry it to a hidden spot and eat it there. If a lion sees a horse with a rider and if the horse also sees the lion, then the horse will try to throw off the rider and when the man falls off, the lion will not touch him but chase the horse. He can run faster than a horse and catches up in no time. With one stroke on the back, the horse is dead. When the lion is hungry, he is very hungry. If he sees a man, he will not be in a hurry to bite him; only the absence of any other animal to feed on would induce him to turn on a human being. If a man walks with a gun or anything in his hand and meets a lion on the road, he should not run away but stand and stare at the lion. He should look sternly and angrily and show that he is confident. The lion will then be frightened and run away. But if a man showed fear and ran, the lion would jump on him and bite him. If a man climbed a tree, the lion would sit down at the bottom of the tree and wait. If fires were lit at night, this would frighten the lion. He would also be afraid of a whip. When the lion roars in hunger, his tail shakes. His way of walking is gloomy and jumpy. If people were to attack the lion with twelve dogs, he would kill all the dogs; but on seeing the dogs come up for the attack, he would run to a high place and probably think in his own way ‘I am big and you are all too small’. However, a lion could be surrounded by dogs and become confused and then the biting of the dogs could kill him. This is the end of the story about the lion.