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tering him with the promise to print a handsome pict- 

 ure-book for him, in which he could attempt to explain 

 by what circuitous and wonderful processes he had at- 

 tained those results, and how he had overturned the 

 mountain rancfe of Te wahi Punamu. But when his book 

 was ready they justly refused to touch it. They ban- 

 ished him to a small island in the North Atlantic, where 

 the villagers, who were all a body of refugees, took pity 

 on the impostor, and got out his book in such cheap style 

 as they could afford. He lived many years among them, 

 a good riddance to Mok-che-hunk. But the Mok-che- 

 hi;nkites, on the later occasion of which I speak, surpassed 

 themselves. They turned the opportunity to publish, to 

 their own advantage, in another way. There are among 

 them extensive sellers of paper-rags and waste paper. 

 These parties induced the grand council to print the 

 books of the hammer-men. But it was not their purpose 

 to allow these books to get into the hands of the ham- 

 mer-men of other provinces. They kept them all in 

 Mok-chehunk. They divided them up among the council- 

 men, rancjatiras and arikis themselves, and the council- 

 men, ransfatiras and arikis transferred them to the old- 

 rag-men, and the old-rag-men sold them, and thus turned 

 an honest penny; and there was no pandering to the 

 vanity and ambition of the hammer theorists; and the 

 old-rao--men swore that the same councilmen. rancratiras 

 and arikis should always rule over the province, and keep 

 on publishing picture-books for the hammer- men, as long 

 as the Waitangi should flow into the sea. So the Kewah- 

 wenaw method, varying its application with the circum- 

 stances, has spread through the remotest provinces of Maui. 

 I have given so full a description of the application 



