🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, The Port Hills and Their Names., sentence 91

Looking out from the Port Hills the olden Maori wayfarer surveyed the far-spreading Plains and the name handed down from the days of the Waitaha tribe, the forerunners of the Ngati-Mamoe, came to his lips: “Nga Pakihi Whakatekateka a Waitaha.”

Who acts: Looking, olden Maori wayfarer, far spreading Plains · What happens: look out, hill, survey, spread, hand down, come · To what, where: Port, name, Pakihi Whakatekateka, lips

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