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Title: Hinemoa
With Notes & Vocabulary

Author: Unknown

Translator: Henry James Fletcher

Release Date: July 6, 2007 [EBook #22009]

Language: Maori

Character set encoding: ASCII

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HINEMOA

WITH NOTES & VOCABULARY

REV. H. J. FLETCHER

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HINEMOA

WITH NOTES AND VOCABULARY.

BY

REV. H. J. FLETCHER.

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INTRODUCTION.

In the great mass of literature relating to New Zealand there is nothing
similar to the plan of this text book. There are a number of books, very
useful as far as they go, written for the purpose of enabling anyone so
desirous, of learning a few sentences of the Maori language. A text book
with a vocabulary and explanatory notes ought to meet the wishes of
those desiring to go a little further. And while it is practically
impossible to acquire a good colloquial knowledge of the Maori language
from books, it is possible, for those who have the time, to obtain a
knowledge of Maori stories, such as Hinemoa, beyond what the best
translation can give.

The most suitable grammar to be used with this is "Williams's First
Lessons in Maori."

H. J. FLETCHER,
The Manse, Taupo.

KO TE KAUWHAU TENEI O TE KAUHOENGA ATU O HINEMOA KI MOKOIA.

Titiro e Kawana--a whakarongo mai hoki. Ko te wahi e nohoia na e koe, ko
te wahi tena i noho ai to matou tupuna a Hinemoa, i tona Kauanga mai.
Kia kauwhautia atu iana, e ahau, ki a koe. Na, ko Rangiuru, te matua
wahine o Tutanekai, ko Whakaue-Kaipapa tana tane tupu; he tane tahae a
Tuwharetoa. Ko ana tamariki matamua tokotor