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(4.) That their principal proper terms for colours were often com- 
pounded ingeniously and beautifully, in accordance with the expression and 
idiom of their language :— 
(a.) By reduplication, and by half doubling: 
(5.) By adding qualifying adjectival terms for intensifying or lessening; 
the power of which was further heightened or lowered according 
to their position; 
(c.) By the aid of several apt particles of different degrees: 
(d.) By other expressions also adjoined, of admiration, or depreciation. 
(See Paradigm, Appznvrx I.) © 
5, That certain colours took their own proper intensitives, ete., which 
could not be used with other colours. 
Of their great labour, patience, thoughtfulness, and skill, exhibited in their seeking 
after and obtaining the various shades of colours ; often labouring to a 
nicety to procure them. 
Hence (after many trials) they had succeeded in getting their brilliant 
black and red dyes; the former, in particular, being often envied by their 
early discoverers and yisitors and their several European peoples. And 
here (as I have formerly observed when treating on another subject), we 
by me to be the identical sort seen and obtained by Cook and his companions, and well- 
named by them chrysorrhizus.} 
Pohutukawa, a tree (Metrosideros tomentosa) having reddish wood; also a variety of 
kumara with reddish flesh of just the same shade of colour. 
Whero, red (colour); also the rectum protruding, ete. 
Kumu, the anus; whakakumu a red variety of kumara; kumukumu, the red-backed 
gurnard (Trigla kumu). 
Waewae-kereru (pigeons’ feet), and waewae-torea (oyster-catchers’ feet), which are 
always red; also given to infants when wearing red shoes or socks. 
Korau, the white edible pith of the black fern-tree ; also, the large white root of a 
species of Brassica, formerly largely eaten by the Maoris. 
Kakariki, bright green colour ; also, the small green parrots; the green lizards; 
water melons, ete 
Kawakawa, the Piper excelsum shrub; with glaucous green leaves; also, a particular 
variety of jade-stone, having just the same hue of green. 
Pounamw, the green jade-stone (general name) ; also, a common green glass bottle, 
and (with the Ngapuhi tribe) a peculiar potato, planted in February and ripe in May: 
(infra, § 6). - 
Waikura, the reddish stagnant water of some sluggish wat d pools, arising 
from a deposit of protoxide of iron; also, rust on iron tools, ete. 
Waro, charcoal ; also, mineral coals; a very dark cave ; a black abyss. 
Pukapuka, the shrub with large leaves, white underneath, ( Brachyglottis repanda) ; 
also, a book ; white paper, ete, 
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