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 earth, and the lava-stream parted and flowed into the ravines on either side. Pele summoned her brothers, and a shower of red-hot stones and ashes fell on every side; from under this fiery shower Kaulu and his men escaped with difficulty by launching their canoes and paddling vigorously out to sea.



 

The first King of Mangaia was named Rangi, and he was indeed “monarch of all he surveyed,” for there was no other human being on the island to dispute his sovereignty. As Maui was supposed to have pulled up an island from the abyss, so Rangi was also believed by his descendants to have drawn Mangaia up to 