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XIII The Roaring of the Sea

1
O Potatau
you will be a father to us,
will you not?
A great cheering and
a salute was fired.

The noise was like the roaring of the sea.

2
We saw that the elder brother
was quarrelling with the younger;
so one man was appointed
to suppress the fighting and stop the blood.

He is Te Wherowhero:
Potatau, King.