Polynesian Mythology And Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race As
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Kata listened attentively to this incantation, until he learnt it by heart, and when he was quite sure that he knew it, he rushed sud- denly upon the priests ; they, surprised and igno- rant of the numbers of. Their enemy, or whence they came, made little resistance, and were in a moment smitten and slain. The bones of his father Wahieroa were then eagerly snatched up by him ; he hastened with them back to the canoe, embarked on board it, and his warriors at once paddled away, striving to reach... his fortified village. In the morning some of the Ponaturi repaired to their sacred place, and found their priests lying dead there, just as they were slain by Rata. So, without delay, they pursued him. A thousand war- riors of their tribe followed after Rata. At length this army reached the fortress of Rata, and an en- gagement at once took place, in which the tribe of Rata was worsted, and sixty of its warriors slain ; * New Zealand flax. 116 POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY. at this moment Rata betlioiiglit liim of tlie spell lie had learnt from the priests, and, immediately re- peating the potent incantation Titikura, his slain warriors were by its power once more restored to life; then they rushed again to the combat, and the Ponaturi were slaughtered by Rata and his tribe, a thousand of them — the whole thousand were slain.
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