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Show "I am x\Tell, my mother." "Will you have some hot broth and food to strengthen yourself?" "Not until I see to my brother." "We are doing all that is within our power. The tohungas have beseeched the gods of healing in Ruruku's behalf. I have been mixing strong herbs and Grandmother Wetekia applies a poultice to his wound to drax-r out the spreading ^oiscn. Fe still burns x-jitb fever. I am terribly worried. The fever must break soon or he will not survive." The old woman Wetekia turned to x-.rarmly embr-ce her eldest grandson, at the same time attempting to c omf or t Marama's fears. "Sometimes fever is good," she said. "It is an attempt of the body to overpower the poison xvhich wracks it." Turning to Roa, she addressed a ~uery. "How did this terrible wound happen? Tt does not look like a battle wound." "It is not a battle wound, mv grandmother. It was t_§_ arawa, the shark, the evil blue mako." "5. ki, ka kino, that is bad, very terrible. And how was Ruruku's life saved from the evil one?" 'Ave was pulled from the water, and the shark |