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Then he went out, and ran off over the hard-trodden snow outside the houses, treading with such force that it seemed as if the footmarks were made in soft snow. And thus he went off to meet the bears. "Hau! Look at Kâgssagssuk. Did you ever see...." "What is come to Kâgssagssuk; what can it be?" Umerdlugtoq was greatly excited, and so astonished that his eyes would not leave the boy.
This was appropriate to a sacrifice in spring, offered to God to seek His blessing on the agricultural labours of the year, Hau Ki, as the ancestor of the House of Kau, being associated with Him in it.
The Hau Hau Religion.# Meantime new trouble was brewing in the Taranaki district.
When would they ever meet again? He had taught her those words himself. She remembered listening as he sang them over and over under the hau tree at Waikiki. Had it been prophecy? And she had admired his singing, had told him that he sang with such expression. She laughed aloud, hysterically, at the recollection. With such expression! when he had been pouring his heart out in his voice.
Hau! accompanied by raising one hand above the head with palm turned to the front, would turn aside the Pakeha's bullets. It was in April, 1864, that they first appeared in the field. A Captain Lloyd, out with a reconnoitring party in Taranaki, fell, rather carelessly, into an ambuscade, where he and six of his people were killed and a dozen wounded.
Frankly, if I could choose between you and him to live with me on a desert isle, I'd choose Joe." Little bare-legged children ran about him, playing, on the grass; but Percival Ford did not see them. He was gazing steadily at the singer under the hau tree. He even changed his position once, to get closer. The clerk of the Seaside went by, limping with age and dragging his reluctant feet.
Their murderous deeds and the reprisals these brought about gave a darker tinge to the war henceforth. Their frantic faith led to absurdities as well as horrors. They would work themselves up into frenzy by dances and incantations, and in particular by barking like dogs hence their name. At first, they seem to have believed that the cry Hau!
Nondwana, the king's brother, he suspected of being not over favourably disposed towards himself, possibly through jealousy. "That will be when the second moon is at full?" continued one of the talkers. "It will. Ha! The Spider will receive a brave offering. Yet how shall it devour one who bears its Sign?" "It may not," rejoined the other. "Hau! that will in truth be a test if the sign is real."
The last in the first decade of the Sacrificial Odes of Kau is addressed to Hau Ki as having proved himself the correlate of Heaven, in teaching men to cultivate the grain which God had appointed for the nourishment of all.
But Te Kooti himself escaped, and for the next two years he lived the life of a hunted animal, chased through the gloomy forests by the relentless Ropata. He fought many fights; his twenty Hau Hau followers were often near to death from starvation; but at length wearied out he threw himself on the mercy of the white men, was pardoned, sunk into obscurity, and died in peace.
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