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sly purpose which Master Witterbacks did not understand. 

 He was getting up a picture-book this pampered Ton- 

 gesan plotter against our Maori institutions. And when 

 the picture-book was ready he said to Master Witterbacks, 

 " Master Witterbacks, now let us print this book, and 

 never say a word to Rangatira Sammiheel about it." So 

 the book was printed, and Master Witterbacks' name was 

 set down in the book as high scientific engine-driver. 

 And it was paid for out of the people's money; and the 

 people never uttered a howl to this day, for they never 

 knew anything about it; and Rangatira Sammiheel is in 

 the mountains, and thinks science is killed as dead as a 

 moa. 



This is a true history of the origin of the Kewahwe- 

 iiaw method, and of its application to geological surveys 

 in Kewahwenaw. But it is by no means local in its ap- 

 plications. Men with hammers have been among the rocks 

 in other provinces. The application of the Kewahwenaw 

 method to them varies with the circumstances, and with 

 the disposition of the arikis, rangatiras, masters and coun- 

 cilmen in the different provinces. In the province of Ma- 

 koketa they permitted a man with a hammer, who came 

 from Nu-Jerk, to amuse himself a couple of years in 

 collecting stones and getting up a picture-book; and the 

 prototype of Sammiheel arose in council and told him to 

 go home; they would not be nu-jerked; they would not 

 pay the costs of his vagrant excui'sioning. So he went 

 home howling, and howled for six years. Some time 

 afterward another man with a hammer arose from among 

 their own citizens. They told him they had use for him. 

 They had a quantity of quarry stones to crack. They 

 had a council-house to build, and would like to employ 



