On a stormy and very windy morning a lady called Huria was waking up. Huria opened up her curtain to find a ship was in trouble. She quickly got her husband Hemi and her friend Hohepata and all three of them ran to shore. All of a sudden there came loud cries for help. In the fierce waves there was a ship in trouble and the wind howled, pushing the ship closer to the dangerous rocks.
On the ship Henry Squirrell volunteered to swim to a big rock and tie a rope around it. As soon as he jumped a wave hauled him onto a rock. Now no-one else volunteered after that. Huria swam to the ship and gave the shipmates a rope to tie to the ship. Huria swam back to the rock and tied the rope around it. Huria called out, “I think you can come across now.”
The first person to come across dropped off and all the other people did too. Then it came to the captain. He took one last look at Henry and decided he was dead so he left.
A short time later Henry started to call for help but no-one could. The rope was broken and just at that moment the ship smashed with all of its cargo.
That’s the story of how Huria became as famous as she is today.
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