CHAP. III.] TREATMENT OF WOMEN. 39 



shot himself. But the sister found the slave last 

 night in the bush, and, to revenge her brother's 

 death, killed her. Take the girl and judge her ac- 

 cording to your laws." The girl was Te Waro's 

 daughter! The reader may imagine the scene! 

 Te Waro, a man of serene, highly meditative, and 

 noble countenance, arraigning his only child of 

 murder : his motives could not be mistaken. Before 

 him stood his daughter, who pleaded her cause 

 with energy and firmness, although now and then 

 a tear started from her eye. She justly observed 

 that she had acted according to their law, and that 

 the girl had been the cause of her brother's death. 

 But Te Waro would not listen to this. When the 

 magistrate refused to send the girl to Auckland, 

 Te Waro wished to give himself up to justice, being 

 the nearest relation, and was with difficulty per- 

 suaded that any such mode of retribution was con- 

 trary to our laws. This case will show how much 

 the natives appreciate the new order of things, and 

 how easy it will be to reconcile them entirely to it. 

 And yet this was a tribe far in the interior, not in 

 constant contact with Europeans, nor influenced by 

 missionaries. 



The wife is well treated by the husband ; she is 

 his constant companion, and takes care of the plan- 

 tations, manufactures of mats, and looks after the 

 children. The man constructs the house, goes out 

 fishing, and to war : but even in war the woman is 

 often his companion, and either awaits in the neigh- 



