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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 : 



(b.) 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, Appendix I.) 

 5. That certain colours took their own proper intensitives, etc., which 

 could not be used with other colours. 



(4.) 



0/ 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 visitors and their several European peoples. And 



here (as I have formerly observed when treating on another subject), we 



by m^ to be the identical sort seen and obtained by Cook and his companions, and well- 

 named by them chrysorrhizus.] 



Pohutukaiva, 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, etc. 



Kumu, the anus; ivhakakumu a red variety of kumara j kumukumu, the red-backed 

 gurnard (Trigla kumu). 



Waewae-hereru (pigeons' feet), and loaeivae-torea (oyster-catchers' feet), which are 

 always red ; also given to infants when wearing red shoes or socks. 



Koran, 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, etc. 



Kaiuakawa, the Piper excelsiim shrub ; with glaucous gi'een leaves ; also, a particular 

 variety of jade-stone, having just the same hue of green. 



Pounamu, 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 water courses and pools, arising 

 from a deposit of protoxide of iron ; also, rust on iron tools, etc. 



Waro, charcoal ; also, mineral coals ; a very dark cave ; a black abyss. 



Pukapuka, the shrub with large leaves, white underneath, (Brachy glottis repanda) ; 

 also, a book ; white paper, etc, 



