CoLENSO. — On tlie Maori Baees of New Zealand. 423 

 " De duro est ultima ferro. — 



— Fugere pudor, verumque, fidesque ; 



In quorum subiere locum fraudesque dolique, 



Insidiaeque, et vis, et amor sceleratus habendi." 



— Ovid. 



Postscript. — At the suggestion of some of Ws 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 Napier in January, and sent 

 it to Otago in February, 1864. This, he thinks, will sufiiciently account for 

 the rough and fragmentary appearance of many of its passages. 



Napier, 1864. 



