MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 



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on every occasion, she conducted 

 herself towards liim witli the 

 greatest maternal affection, mo- 

 desty, and propriety : she \vas a 

 woman of great understanding, 

 personal beauty, and amiable man- 

 ners. 



If a young girl is betrothed, or 

 set apart to be the wife or concu- 

 bine of a noble higher in rank 

 than herself, she derives more re- 

 spect on that account, independent 

 of what is due to her own proper 

 rank. 



The women employ themselves 

 (particularly nobles,) in making 

 a variety of articles, chiefly orna- 

 mental; these emjiloyments, how- 

 ever, are consideied accomplish- 

 ments, not professions : some of 

 the higher class of women not 

 only make these employments an 

 amusement, but actually make a 

 sort of trade of it, without pre- 

 judice to their rank; which is 

 what the lower class of women 

 could not do, because what they 

 make is not their own property, 

 but is done by the order of their 

 superiors; the highest accomplish- 

 ments cannot add to a woman's 

 rank, though it does somewhat to 

 the estimation in which she may 

 be held, for such things, when 

 well done, are hononi-able in a 

 woman of rank. These things 

 will be farther spoken of here- 

 after. 



Children acquire their rank by 

 inheritance, as before observed, 

 from the mother's side : if she be 

 not a noble they are not, and vice 

 versa. If a man, however high 

 his rank, have a child by a woman 

 who is only a tooa, no matter 

 whether they are married or not, 

 (but indeed there is no instance 

 of a noble marrying a tooa,) that 



child would not be a noble, though 

 it were known that the father was 

 a noble ; the child might rank as 

 a mooa, but not higher : on the 

 contrary, if a woman who is a 

 noble were to have a cliild by a 

 tooa,. the child would be a noble ; 

 but this perhaps seldom happens, 

 for the pride of the females would 

 not allow of such a low intrigue ; 

 or if such a circumstance were to 

 take place, the greatest care would 

 be used that it should not be 

 known. Children that are nobles 

 are soiuewhat less respected, as 

 may be supposed, on account of 

 their childhood ; but then any 

 familiarity or slight disrespect that 

 might be shewn them \\'ovild only 

 be by nobles nearly equal or su- 

 perior to them. If Finow were 

 to see a child of superior rank 

 approach or be brought near him, 

 he perhaps would say, (and fre- 

 quently does on such occasions,) 

 Take that child away! why do you 

 bring him here, troubling me with 

 the taboo ? or some sucii abrupt 

 expression : such language, how- 

 e\er, would not be decorous from 

 an inferior, unless he be of nearly 

 equal rank, and then only by au- 

 thority of his superior age.'" 



NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO NEW 

 ZEALAND. 



Performed in the Years IS 1 4 and 

 181.5, By John Liddiard Nicho- 

 las, Esq. 



The lelater of this \oyagc ac- 

 companied the Kcv. Samuel .Mars- 

 den, principal cha])lain of Ncav 

 South Wales, on wliose cliaiactcr 

 he has paid the highest enco- 

 miums, and wliose p'.irpose was to 



settle 



