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practical manual, in which every tutua and ware can find 

 his name in dictionary order. Away with this gigantic, 

 pedantic, romantic and satanic dun-seadd." Now, Ranga- 

 tira Sammiheel was a nobleman of purest blood. He had 

 himself carried the forked witch-hazel stick. His patriot- 

 ism was tried and proven ; no selfish motive ever found 

 place in his expansive vest, and the breath of suspicion 

 had never reached him. To this day his reputation re- 

 mains as spotless as the sky of Maui. His heroic effort 

 on this occasion ripped open the dark cloud which hung 

 over the council and over Kewahwenaw, and by the gleam 

 of lio-ht which fell through the rent could be seen Ran- 

 gatira Harrihowlt rising like Tangaroa from the sea. 

 Rangatira Harrihowlt also took his reputation in his 

 hands and swung it over the heads of his fellow council- 

 men. "The day has dawned," he exclaimed, "when this 

 scientific humbuggery must be stamped into flindereens. 

 I have looked over the documents submitted by this 

 strolling and conceited pedant and find nothing useful to 

 our people. Here are some hundreds of rolls on the 

 topography of the province, what has that to do with 

 the development of our soap-mines?* It is all bosh. 

 Here is an equal number of rolls on our paradisiacal 

 climate, which amounts to an invitation to all the hordes 

 of Tonga, Viti and Papua to sail in on us and hold the 

 fort. We don't want an immiofration. We have sent an 

 agent to Hawaiki to keep immigrants away. We have 

 had to kill off" thousands already in Maui, faster than we 

 could eat them. This matter is all bosh. There are other 

 rolls of infertile and infelicitous flummagery among these 



* The learned councilman evidently alluded to soapstone quarries, which 

 have been utilized to a great extent in increasing our supplies of butter, sugar 

 and flour. 



