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In some cases they would build a special house for this event. 

 Such house is termed a whare jmkmoha, but would receive a 

 special name also, and be kept closed and unused until my 

 party, the ope pakmvha, arrive there, when we take up our 

 quarters in it. The tavii, pertaining to all new houses of 

 importance remains upon it until our arrival, when it is 

 removed and the house rendered noa (common, free from 

 tajyu) by the priest of my party. Such a house would be built 

 only when the parties are of high birth. In special cases 

 it may be an elaborately carved house, in others a plain one 

 having no embellishments of that kind, and in yet others it is 

 merely a temporary house. The house is for the entertain- 

 ment of the pakuwha party (ope pakmvha)." 



(Sometimes the husband and wife go together to this 

 function along with her relatives, and at others the relatives 

 of the girl escort her to the home of the young man, where 

 she is formally handed over to be his wife. Which amounts 

 to this : that the pakmvha feast may be held either at the 

 time of the marriage, or, in other cases, same time after 

 the couple have been cohabiting. But always the first feast 

 or entertainment (the ivhare tuatahi, or "first house," as 

 natives term it, in allusion to the building of the special 

 house) is given by the man's relatives, never by the woman's. 

 The latter it is who give the second feast, or ivhakahoki 

 pakuivha). 



" Those Te Whaiti people have been busy collecting 

 and preparing food for us. The realms of Tane and of Tauga- 

 roa have been called upon to furnish food-supplies for many 

 months. Potted birds, dried fish, and divers vegetable pro- 

 ducts are ready in large quantities. Fuel is piled up in 

 apaapa around the cooking-sheds, and parties of young people 

 roam the forests for such woods as burn brightly without 

 emitting much smoke. This is for the purpose of warming 

 and lighting the houses at night, such fires being probably 

 supplemented by crude lamps burning fat obtained from 

 birds. There will be much talking in these houses at night, 

 many speeches delivered by eloquent speakers, and much 

 posture dancing. 



" We send word to Te Whaiti by messenger as to the 

 day of our arrival at that place. We time our arrival tliere 

 so as not to arrive late in the day, even if it is necessary to 

 encamp for the night within a short distance of the village of 

 our hosts. When we march into the village we do so in close 

 column and with a slow regular movement, albeit we do not 

 keep step, as do the white men in their marching. Our 

 column advances in silence, and each person tliereof looks to 

 his front, apparently unconscious of the noisy welcome of the 

 village. 



