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162 and he arrived at the Puangangana. Then Tingilau sang mournfully:

Then answered the Puangangana: "Tingilau, you are present; Tingilau, you have come." Then the man sat still, [being] afraid. Tingilau sang mournfully:

The pua answered: "Come here. What a chief this is to run into danger! How do you know that there are trees which talk? You have passed beyond the country of men, you have come to the country of gods." The pua then said: "You go, when I pass out of sight, then at once do you jump down into the bottom of your canoe and leave it with me whether you get to the country of Sinasengi, where you will find your enemy."

Tingilau then went, and, when the pua was out of sight, he at once leaped down into the bottom of his canoe. He then prepared a fine mat, and was about to make the land vanish. Then he went to look; there was no one but [something] like the body of a canoe and outrigger. "I will go", said he, "for my fine mat. There it is in the rubbish carried by the current." Then he sat with the fine mat. The canoe of Tingilau was then beached, and he jumped ashore, and clung to a cocoa-nut. Then he fell down and slept. The birds fluttered about.