294 SPARKS FROM A GEOLOGIST'S HAMMER. 



documents which I have not had the patience to bore 

 through. They possess no practical use for our people. 

 There is nothing here which could stand alone if wrapped 

 in typography and put on its feet. It is all bosh." 



These were brave and ringing words. Such words had 

 never before been uttered in Kewahwenaw. Gratitude 

 soon raised their author to the rank of ariki. This was 

 the natal day of the Kewahwenaw method. Rangatira 

 Saramiheel was its father and mother; Rangatira Harri- 

 howlt was its nurse. As soon as the event was accom- 

 plished, Masters Hairybald and Witterbacks, who had 

 been sitting in an adjoining apartment, opened the door 

 sufficiently wide to protrude their heads, and with hands 

 covering the exposed angles of their mouths, called in a 

 loud whisper to Sammiheel, " Magnificently done, Ranga- 

 tira Sammiheel! " Now the power and effectiveness of 

 Rangatira Sammiheers eloquence is manifest from the 

 fact that Masters Hairybald and Witterbacks had always 

 aided and encouraged the man with a hammer, and, 

 before they discovered his trick, had been strongly com- 

 mitted to the methods which he had pursued; but when 

 Rangatira Sammiheel blew his blast, and turned the tide, 

 they perceived themselves likely to be swamped, and called 

 out wildly in unison, " Lord Sammiheel, we want to get 

 into your boat! " 



But the prescriptive power of science was not yet 

 completely destroyed in Maui. Two chapters of later 

 history show that the scientific disease still lurks in the 

 blood of our tutua. The man with a hammer retained 

 an influence over the ariki * of Hauraki. He persuaded 

 the ariki to furnish his fossils a home. The ariki built 

 * This is explained as meaning the higher class of chiefs. 



