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He therefore took a second calabash and went back and drew water in the calabash from the lake and Hine-Moa again said to him, 'Whom is that: water for? So the slave answered as before, 'For Tutanekai. And the maiden again said, 'Give it to me, for I am thirsty. And the slave gave it to her and she drank and purposely threw down the calabash and broke it.
Hine-Moa got into this to warm herself, for she was trembling all over, partly from the cold, after swimming in the night across the wide lake of Rotorua, and partly also, perhaps, from modesty at the thought of meeting Tutanekai.
'Now, O Governor, spoke the Maori chief, 'look round you and listen to me, far there is something worth seeing here. Sir George was sitting on the very spot where sat Hine-Moa, the great ancestress of the tribe, when she swam the lake to join her sweetheart Tutanekai. She was a maiden of rare beauty and high rank, and many young men desired to wed her.
So he went feeling about, along the banks of the hot spring, searching everywhere, whilst she lay coyly hid under the ledges of the rocks, peeping out, wondering when she should be found. At last he caught hold of a hand and cried out, 'Hullo, who's this? And Hine-Moa answered: 'It's I, Tutanekai. And he said: 'But who are you? Who's I? Then she spoke louder, and said: 'It's I, 'tis Hine-Moa.
And these occurrences took place repeatedly between those two persons. At last the slave went again to Tutanekai, who said to him, 'Where is the water for me? And his servant answered, 'It is all gone; your calabashes have been broken. 'By whom? said his master. 'Didn't I tell you that there is a man in the bath? answered the servant. 'Who is the fellow? said Tutanekai.
'How can I tell? replied the slave. 'Why, he's a stranger. 'Didn't he know the water was for me? said Tutanekai. 'How did the rascal dare to break my calabashes! Why, I shall die from rage! Then Tutanekai threw on some clothes and caught hold of his club, and away he went and came to the bath and called out 'Where's that fellow who broke my calabashes?
And Hine-Moa knew the voice, that the sound of it was that of the beloved of her heart; and she hid herself under the overhanging rocks of the hot spring. But her hiding was hardly a real hiding; rather a bashful concealing of herself from Tutanekai that he might not find her at once, only after trouble and careful search for her.
The servant then went back, and Tutanekai said to him, 'Where is the water I told you to bring me? So he answered, 'Your calabash was broken. And his master asked him, 'Who broke it? And he answered, 'The man who is in the bath. And Tutanekai said to him, 'Go back again, then, and fetch me some water.
She found escape from these perplexities in a long swim to her choice, Tutanekai. But the Maori chief goes forward with the idyll, and must be followed word for word, as Sir George wrote: At the place where she landed there is a hot spring, separated from the lake only by a narrow ledge of rooks.
He replied, 'It's for Tutanekai. 'Give it here then, said Hine-Moa. And he gave her the water and she drank, and, having finished drinking, she purposely threw down the calabash and broke it. Then the servant asked her, 'What business had you to break the calabash of Tutanekai? but Hine-Moa did not say a word in answer.
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