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Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands

Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands : notebook 12

Prefatory Notes

[Note added by Bob O'Brien as transcriber:]

This song begins mid-book after six blank pages that follows the list of 64 names identified as the ariki of Teauotonga, which in turn follows after the 34 pages of script that begins "I te mataiti 1896, I te marama ia Ianuary 13, kia Adoni ma teia manga tuatua mamae naku te tatau tuatua ua ra au..." that I believe are sermons drafted in Cook Islands Māori by Hutchin probably before and after this date. The d and t are interchangeable, just like p and b.

Book 12 suggests that Hutchin was becoming increasingly committed to gathering oral history and ephemera even as his health, and that of his wife and children, became influenced by the tropical environment.

Alexander Turnbull Library MS Papers 4151*34. Transcribed by Bob O'Brien in December 1995.

No Mauke Teia Tuatua Nei

E tuatua no tetai vaine Mataiapo i akakino ia e tetai vaine, no roto i tona vareae ki taua vaine ra. Kia kite ra te Metua, e kua akakino ia tana tamaine; kua riri atura te metua i te tuatua a taua vaine ra, i te mea kua iriiri uanga ia tana tamaine e te vaine ao. No reira aia i tou ei i te pee no tana tamaine. Tera te pee &

1 Te rongonui tei Areora, kia nga Parekura ra; mei kakeke ai koe.
= Ariki rue e, kua ara aki koe i te akatere keina i taku tamaine i kakeke ai koe e.
2 Ko te rongonui e, tei Areora ko te rongonui tei Areora. I taku tamaine, ko te kupu mai a to metua angai ake iakae na, kia tukori, kia tueva kia tua irinaki, mei kakeke ai kae e. I ariki re, kua ara rai oki koe i te akatere keina i taku i taku tamaine i kakeke ai koe e.
3 E ui, e ui ia ko koe ina, i te tumu o te ara, i pau ei aki ra, Oti ia puta ai kae ra ki te tui taae, ko te anau taae oki a Tumetua, no raro e no tatau katoa ra mei kakeke ai koe e.
4 E au, e au ariki io, Tangiia nui ki te Auturoa. I tere mai mei Tahiti, e tere atu ki Auau, Tau ake ki Avarua e. Te noo nei ko taku tupuna ko Karika ti a i turu ei Tangiia nui to tatau ariki ra, mei kakeke ai koe e.
5 Ko Mauke e te enua nei, ko te Temaru aki te ariki mua ia Akatoka i anau ei Moenau nei i puta mai ei ka Tamaiva ariki, i rairi ia a Mauke nei ki te rauti ko taku tui ariki ra, mei kakeke ai koe e.
6 I kake, i kake kae ki ea, ki te rararoa kia Tangiia nui. I anau ei Teariki tara are, ko Uruia, ko Uatukuariki ko nga Atua nunui e. I noo ei Tinokura ra, to tatau ariki ra mei kakeke ai koe e.
7 Kaore, kaore kae i ngere i noo a Tinokura i noo i te vaine ko te Matarangi maono, anau ei vaerua, i muri a Arau rongo e. I noo ei Tukau ra i tona vaine ia Ngaparekura ra mei kake keke ai koe e.
8 E oo tatau ki Toroume, tatau katoa ai kua aere ki Makatea tatau katoa ai, i karanga ai Tangiia nui te ariki mau rangi e taeau koia ki runga ki te Maunga ei au aia akaaka io e, mei kake keke ai koe e.
9 Oo rangoa i mariko e vaka ko tupa neke, e au ia i Avaiki ko te Tapotueoterangi nei e tona atu ki runga o Araura, vaia Pareki tau ake ki runga o Atiu, tanu mea io ei ko taau kai, na Maine ko te kai mua i Atiu, ka aki ei te kau ariki o Atea ra, mei kake keke ai koe e.

[Note added by Bob O'Brien as transcriber:] E tuatua teia, no te Manu e Te Aa

E tuatua teia, no te Manu e Te Aa. E kai ta raua. Kua rere te Manu, Kua amama te vaa o te Aa kua titiko te manu i tona repo ki roto i te vaa o te Aa, kua riri te Aa i taua manu ra.