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Show - 100 Haere Mai Welcome Home "Haere mai. haere mai. Welcome, welcome." shouted the guard at the beach. The entire na heard the cry and moved en masse toward the beach to welcome the warriors back to their home village. Songs, chants, and other rituals began to celebrate their successful return from Te Waipounamu and the land Southward. Canoes were beached and. secured b'r weary warriors who were immediately embraced by rejoicing families. Chief Turi embraced his companion wife Marama and his younger children. Be looked anxiouslv about until he saw Roa. Relief and ioy overflox^ed in their embrace. "My son, my eldest son! Seeing you alive and safe is ioy beyond x»rords." Then fear and anorehension |
