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sujDposed to use red paint for this purpose. The termination 

 mera means blood or bloody. Kau is a root found in tlie names 

 of other birds, as kanijamU, "the owl." I have been able to 

 get no explanation of Numrikwiii. I should say that in 

 times of peace Kauyamerri people ai-e found Uving- among 

 the Niimrikwcn. But all are afraid to go into one another's 

 districts unless there are friends Avhose protection can be 

 claimed. 



There is still another division which takes no account of 

 districts or the division just given. The people living on the 

 coast all round the island are Kwatahrenimin those inland 

 are the N'lUi Asolhnin, the people who make big feasts, or 

 Niimatahelyiv . These are undoubtedly names of division, like 

 our rustic. The exact meaning of Kwatahren I do notknow% 

 but the idea it expresses wdien applied by the inland people 

 to the httoral inhabitants is, "those fellows down below." 

 Nicli Asolhnin get their name from the high price they set 

 on their things. For a very small yam they expect a large 

 pig. All their sprats are mackerel in fact. The meaning 

 of Nurnatakeiyitj I do not know, except that it is one of 

 derision. A similar term to the above in pigeon English is 

 " man bush." Hence, a person who does a thing in awkward 

 manner is a " man bush." 



These divisions are of importance in matters of war. The 

 Kwatiihrcn and Numatakeiyiv are divisions that do not count 

 in war. The others all do. War may exist between two 

 villages in the same district, or between the people of one 

 district and that of another district, or the people of several 

 districts may be united in carrying on war against a single 

 district or several united districts. Still these are all called 

 small icars, and the indignities of cannibalism are not 

 perpetrated on the fallen foe. But a war between the 

 Nfimrikwen and the Kauyamera is a great war, the Crimea 

 of the Tannese. Then cannibahsm is practised. One district 

 of the Nfimrikwcn may be at war with another district of 

 the Niimrikwen, yet both would carry on war against the 

 Kauyamera. In all wars it is life for life. But in the great 

 war it is any man of the Kauyamt^ra for one killed in the 

 Nilmrikwen. If a man at the south end of the Kauyamera 

 region kills a Niimrikwen the life of a man at the north end 

 will do to pay for him. 



The instruments of war were various kinds of heavy clubs, 

 spears, the kanivah (the handstone of the Greeks), and bows 

 and arrows. Now these are all supplanted by the white 



