The Voyage to New Zealand by George Grey — Read

When the canoes were built and ready for sea they were dragged afloat, the separate lading of each canoe was collected and put on board, with all the crews. Tamatekapua then remembered that he had no skilful priest on board his canoe, and he thought the best thing he could do was to outwit Ngātoroirangi, the chief who had command of the Tainui. So just as his canoe shoved off, he called out to Ngātoro, "I say, Ngātoro, just come on board my canoe and perform the necessary religious rites for me. " Then the priest Ngātoro came on board, and Tamatekapua said to him, "You had better also call your wife, Kearoa, on board, that she may make the canoe clean or common, with an offering of seaweed to be laid in the canoe instead of an offering of fish, for you know the second fish caught in a canoe, or seaweed, or some substitute, ought to be offered for the females, the first for the males; then my canoe will be quite common, for all the ceremonies will have been observed, which should be followed with canoes made by priests. " Ngātoro assented to all this, and called his wife, and they both got into Tama's canoe. The very moment they were on board, Tama' called out to the men on board his canoe, "Heave up the anchors and make sail; " and he carried off with him Ngātoro and his wife, that he might have a priest and wise man on board his canoe. Then they up with the foresail, the mainsail, and the mizzen, and away shot the canoe.

Up then came Ngātoro from below, and said, "Shorten sail, that we may go more slowly, lest I miss my own canoe."