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and that this feparatkm is announced by a gentle breeze of wind, 

 which gives warning of its approach to an inferior Ea-tooa (or divi- 

 nity) that hovers over the grave, and who carries it to the clouds. 

 In his chart Too-gee has marked an imaginary road which goes the 

 lengthways of Ea-hei-no-mawe, viz, from Cook's Strait to the North 

 Cape, which Too-gee calls Terry-inga. While the foul is received 

 by the good Ea-tooa, an evil fpirit is alfo in readinefs to carry the 

 impure part of the corpfe to the above road, along which it is carried 

 to Terry-inga, whence it is precipitated into the fea. 



Suicide is very common among the New Zealanders; and this they 

 often commit by hanging themfelves on the flighted occafion : thus, 

 a woman who has been beaten by her hufband will perhaps hang her~ 

 felf immediately. In this mode of putting an end to their exiftence, 

 both our vifitors feemed to be perfect adepts, having often threatened 

 to hang themfelves, if they were not fent back to their own country. 

 As thefe threats, however, were ufed in their gloomy moments, they' 

 were foon laughed out of them. 



It could not be difcovered that they had any other divifion of time 

 than the revolution of the moon, until the number amounted to one 

 hundred, which they term " Ta-iee E-ton," i. e. one Eton or hun- 

 dred moons ; and it is thus they count their age, and calculate all 

 other events. 



Hoo-doo and Too-gee both agreed that a great quantity of manu- 

 factured flax might be obtained for trifles, fuch as axes, chifTels, &c. ; 

 and faid, that in mo ft places the flax grows naturally in great quan* 

 tities ; in other parts it is cultivated by feparating the roots, and 

 planting them out, three in one hole, at the diftance of a foot from 

 each other. They gave, however, a decided preference to the flax- 

 plant of Norfolk Ifland, both for quantity and fize. 



" Much other information (fays Governor King) was given by thefe 

 natives ; but as it may be liable to great errors, I forbear repeating it; 

 for, though we could make our ideas known, and tolerably well 

 underftood by them, and they too, by intermixing what Englifh 



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