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PART ONE

When people ask you

To recite your pedigree

You must say,

‘I am forgetful, a child,

But this is well-known,

Tainui, Te Arawa, Matatua,

Kura-haupo and Toko-maru,

Were the ancestral canoes

That crossed the great sea

Which lies here.’

Nga Moteatea, Peou’s Lament