Against such an attack the chief of Pare seems to have felt himself helpless, for when his feast was over,and he learned that his wife and children had fled, he knew what she would do to revenge her brother, and, without waiting for the invasion from Teaharoa, he escaped to Moorea.

With his departure, his line ceased to be Arii of Pare. He never appeared there again. His wife, afterward married Tevahitua i Patea, and from this marriage our Papara family is descended,

Tau was followed in Pare by Teuira-arii, of whom little is remembered except that he was beaten in battle, and as usual lost his chiefery.

Then came Niuhi, who was the subject of another tragedy caused by his killing the two sons of a man named Tetohu of Faaa, and placing their bodies on the Marae of Raianaunau. When the father heard of their death he called his daughter Terero and said to her: “I have just heard that my sons are put to death by Niuhi, and I am going to Raianaunau to mourn for them.” She remonstrated: “Do not go! You will be killed.” “I will go!” he replied; “but I wish you to wait three days, and if I do not return I shall be dead. Then go to Hitiaa, where you will find Teriimana, Arii of Moorea, who is feasting withTeriitua at Hitiaa. Say to him that I, Tetohu, beg him to revenge the death of my sons. The Fee [cuttle-fish or squid] has eight tentacles. Temahue, the mount of Pare, has eight peaks. There are eight districts of Moorea. There still remain the head and two eyes of the Fee. Give the head to Tefana i Ahurai: one eye to Teruru of Pereaitu (of Paea); the other eye to Vavahiiteraa (of Mahaena). If Terimana accepts my request, beg him to leave instantly for Moorea, start the war-canoes, and give battle to the Arii Niuhi.”

The figure of the cuttle-fish was very characteristic of Tahitian ways of talking, which seemed to find metaphor necessary for intelligent

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