ConENso.—On the Maori Races of New Zealand. 423 
— “De duro est ultima ferro.— 
—Fugére pudor, verumque, fid 
In quorum subiére locum fraudesque dolique, 
Insidizque, et vis, et amor sceleratus habendi." 
PosrscniPr.—At the suggestion of some of his friends, the writer of this 
essay has deemed it advisable to add that he was first applied to by the 
Commissioners of the New Zealand Exhibition to write this essay when at 
Auckland, in December, 1863; and that, as they wished it to be ready in 
four or five weeks, he began it on his return to N apiér in January, and sent 
it to Otago in February, 1864. This, he thinks, will sufficiently account for 
the rough and fragmentary appearance of many of its passages. 
Napier, 1864. 
