Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

"I motu mai i whea? te rimu o te moana. Whence was the drifting sea-weed torn? Sometimes used of a stranger.

He rimu pae noa! A sea-weed driven about!

Used by a wanderer concerning himself. I have known this saying used in a very melancholy way by a young man, a lover, when discarded by his love, and he travelling from place to place to forget his grief. It struck me as being very poetical" (Colenso 1880: 141)