Title: Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands : Notebook 10

Author: John Joseph Knight Hutchin

Editor: Percy Hall

In: Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

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No Aitutaki [Note added by Bob O'Brien as transcriber:] (Proverbs)

1 E tuatua na Pai. E tuara Urua ka miro ke, ko nga tama ia a Taitike i turia ai te rere ai i Auneke, i kae ei i te tuara urua, tera te aitenga mimiti urua ka riro ke no to raua toa i kai ei te vaa, no reira taua tuatua ra.

2 E tuatua na te Apu no roto i te tamaki kua akakere ia te tamaki, no reira i tuatua ai taua tangata ra. Ka oki au ki te iti nga? ko te aa ta Ruatapu. Tera te aitenga ei mata ika tetai ki mua I te Marae, e rekareka te vaerua kino.

3 E tuatua na Arenau. E maina ina ra ua. Tera te aitenga no te anu e te pakitikitia kare e tae ki roto i te tai, i te anu.

4 E tuatua na Terae. Ko te Rae nga manga e Veru. Tera te aitenga e pati kai a Terae kia Veru. kare aia i po, kua karapi aia i te kai.

5 E tuatua na Uma, te kapiki ra kia Vaipae. E Vaipae e ka akatu, no te mea kua peke te taua o Vaipae no reira taua I karanga ai e, Vaipae ka akatu, kua autu te taua i reira