Hinemoa and Tutanekai — Oceania & Polynesia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Aotearoa New Zealand, to a wide lake with an island sitting in the middle of it. Hinemoa is of too high a rank to choose for herself, and her people pull every canoe up the beach at night so she cannot cross. So Tutanekai climbs the high point of the island each evening and plays his flute out over the water, on the chance that it carries. One night she stops waiting for a boat, ties dried gourds under her arms, and swims Lake Rotorua in the dark, steering by the sound.
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