Horouta
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In Māori tradition, Horouta is an alternate name of the Tākitimu canoe. It received this name because of its swiftness (horo) (Tregear 1891:20).
[edit] References
- E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.