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No man knows her nest but myself, and old Te-iki-pa, the chief medicine-man, or Tohunga, of the Maori King. The Moa's eyrie is in the King's country. It is a difficult country, and a dangerous business, if the cock Moa chances to come home. 'Bude, is this worthy of an old friend, this blague? 'Do you doubt my word? 'If you give me your word I must believe that you dreamed it.
And my foot's so much betta, now, that I don't need you the whole while, any moa." "Did you speak to her about me?" asked the girl. "Well, I told her I'd tell you. I couldn't say how you'd like." "Oh, I guess I should like," said Clementina, with her eyes shining. "But I should have to ask motha." "I don't believe but what your motha'd be willin'," said Mrs. Atwell.
We couldn't go back to that night when you threw the slippas into the riva, no' to that time in Florence when we gave up, no' to that day in Venice when I had to tell you that I ca'ed moa fo' some one else. Don't you see?" "Yes, I see," he said, in quick revulsion from the hope he had expressed. "The past is full of the pain and shame of my errors!"
As the story runs, the rocks and the earth married, and had a child, which, when born, was covered with wounds; and hence the name of the said small group of three islands. The story of Lu figures here again. He had a son who was named Moa, after his preserve fowls, and this Moa became king of Manu'a.
Then a strange thing happened. Bude walked to a small case of instruments that stood on a table in the smoking-room. He unlocked it, took out a lancet, brought a Rhodian bowl from a shelf, and bared his arm. 'Do you want proof? 'Proof that you saw a hen Moa sitting? asked Merton in amazement.
'Well, a miracle is not what you call logical proof, but I believe that you did see the Moa, and a still more extraordinary bird, Te-iki-pa. 'Yes, they talk of strange beasts, but "nothing is stranger than man." Did you ever hear of the Berbalangs of Cagayan Sulu? 'Never in my life, said Merton.
Little heaps of their gizzard stones, too, are constantly found. They consist of very smooth and polished flints and cornelians, with sometimes quartz. The bird generally chose rather pretty stones. I do not remember finding a single sandstone specimen of a moa gizzard stone. Those heaps are easily distinguished, and very common. Few people believe in the existence of a moa.
A party of the officers went over to the island of Moa, where the ceremony was to be held, and found the king in a very dirty enclosure, drinking kava; and as the method of preparing this beverage was uninviting to Europeans, they went for a walk till about ten o'clock.
"By the infernal, this fellow may have thought he could seize this treasure for himself! Because he is a navigator!" Moa said vehemently, "Do not be an idiot, Gregg! You could not do it! There will be fighting with Grantline!" My purpose was accomplished. They seemed to see me a willing outlaw like themselves. As though it were a bond between us. "Leave me with him," said Moa. Miko acquiesced.
They smoke, they chat, and at last one of their number makes a proposition to the rest, who joyfully acquiescing, he darts out of the house, leaps from the pi-pi, and disappears in the grove. Soon you see him returning with Kolory, who bears the god Moa Artua in his arms, and carries in one hand a small trough, hollowed out in the likeness of a canoe.
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