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Tini waited a long time for his pet’s return, but no sign of its appearance came. One day the wind blew directly from the country of Kae towards the Sacred Island, and Tini said to his people, “Borne on the wind I smell the savour of roasted flesh. It is the flesh of Tutu.”

Hina also discerned the scent of the poor whale’s flesh being roasted; angry indeed were both husband and wife, for they had designed Tutu to be the bearer of their little boy when he had grown up. So they resolved to fit up an expedition to visit Kae, and if possible to entice him back to Sacred Island, so that they might