Ko ngā purapura e rere atu ai taua mate urutā i tētahi tangata ki tētahi tangata, e piri ai rānei i te tangata ki te kiore, i te kiore rānei ki te tangata, e puta atu ana i roto i te mimi, i te roke, i te hūare rānei o te tūroro, ka piri anō taua mate me ka riro ake i roto i te hā o te tangata i te wā ka maroke aua mea paru, kino, piro, e kīia ake rā, ina uru rānei ki ngā kai, ki te wai rānei e inumia ana, he mea piri mai rānei ki ngā ringaringa i te raweketanga i tētahi mea kua pāngia e taua mate, he mea āta werowero rānei te kiri i uru ai taua mate, he mea ngau rānei nā te ngārara i uru ai, ā he mea anō i uru mā te kiri o ngā kapukapu o ngā waewae (TPH 31/7/1900:2). / The germs whereby that epidemic spreads from one person to another, or passes from a person to a rat, or from a rat to a person, emerge in the urine, faeces, or saliva of the patient, and that illness will also spread when: it is carried in the breath of the person at the time when those infectious things are dry, as discussed above; or when they enter the food or drinking water; or adhere to the hands touching something that has been infected by the disease; or the skin is pierced whereby the disease enters; or by being bitten by an insect; and another way is that it enters through the skin of the soles of the feet.

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Ka riro rā ia i runga i ngā hanga a Kaikōmako, i te kapukapu, i te kaunoti, i ngā hanga a Mahu (M 2004:362). / They departed because of the deeds of the Kaikōmako, gone because of the foot-rest, and the firestick wizardry of Mahu (M 2004:363).

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