HE NGARARA NUI.
Kotahi Ariketa (Alligator) kua oti te patu i te Rangatira o te kaipuke Wero Tohora. Ko te whenua i patua ai ko te Motu Kakara (Spice Islands) kei Inia. (India.) Kei reira nga awa nunui rawa, roa rawa, e noho ai le Arikeia, e whanau ai. He ngarara nui le Arikeia. Tonarile kei ie Tuaiara, le nui ia i nui rawa ; e toru lekau ma rua lona roa. (52 feet long.) He mea pupuhi kite pu haeana (liarpoon gun) i male ai. He ngarara kai tangaia tana ngarara. Ka oti laua i.-garara le pai 11, ka kiiea nga mea kua kainga e ia ;
he nanenanc, be poaka, he aha he aha, e takoto ana i rolo i tona kopu. Ko Pene Niara (Captain Neale) teßangatirai patua ai. Ano he koiti nui te kauae ina puare tona waha. Ehia ranei nga putu (feet) te whanui o tona waha. E uoho ana tera ngarara kite wai, e noho ana ki uta. He mea kakai whakaharahara ia i nga kuao kau, i nga mea ora kutoa. He wlienaa pai a Niu Tireni, ka kore ona ngarara kino. Whakapai ki Te Atua, mo te whanua pai nei e nolio ai talou.
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Haeata, Volume I, Issue 6, 1 September 1859, Page 4
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200HE NGARARA NUI. Haeata, Volume I, Issue 6, 1 September 1859, Page 4
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