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| | Oceanic Mythology: Notes: Part I, Chapter III |
 | | 5 By some accounts the meeting with the blind woman takes place only after Tawhaki has climbed up to the sky, in which attempt his brother, Karihi, falls and is killed. |
 | | In these versions, Tawhaki takes Karihi's eyes with him and gives them to his blind ancestress, thus restoring her sight; see White, i. |
 | | For still different methods of restoring the sight, as told in other islands, see for Manihiki, Gill, 1876, p. |
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