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 the carcase and penetrated into the interior they found to their astonishment heaps of the bodies of those devoured by the dragon, and with them were found their mats and weapons. The victors buried the bodies of the poor slain human beings, and, having lighted their cooking fires, feasted, like true New Zealanders, on the body of the foe.



The island of Mangaia is now a place of fair valleys and hills, but formerly it was shaped like a gentle-sloping mound having no rifts or hollows from the summit to the sea.

Among the gods were two who disputed which should do the most wonderful thing; 