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CHAPTER III. 
CUSTOMS OF NEW ZEALAND— TREATMENT OF CHILDREN— BAPTISMS 
— TAPUS— MEDICINE— DREAMS— CONSULTING THE ORACLE, OR 
OMENS— GENERAL SUPERSTITIONS — BEWITCHING — MARRIAGE- 
POLYGAMY — ITS EFFECTS — INFANTICIDE — INTERMARRYING 
AMONGST TRIBES BENEFICIAL — FEELINGS OF THE NEW ZEALAND- 
ERS EASILY EXCITED— RECEPTION OF STRANGERS— DEPARTURE 
AND RETURN OF FRIENDS — MOCKERY OF AFFECTION— FEELINGS 
WITH REGARD TO FOREIGNERS— RIGHTS OF POSSESSION OF THEIR 
LAND — RESISTING INVASION — PUNISHMENTS — NOTIONS WITH 
RESPECT TO EUROPEAN PUNISHMENTS — INDUSTRY, COMPARED 
WITH FRIENDLY-ISLANDERS— FOOD-COOKING— METHODS OF DRY- 
ING FISH— CHEWING KAURI GUM— TOBACCO— SPORTS — WARLIKE 
PROPENSITIES — PREDATORY EXCURSIONS — FATAL EFFECTS OP 
THEM PREVENTED, IN ONE INSTANCE, BY THE INTERFERENCE OF 
THE MISSIONARIES— BATTLE OF KORORAREKA — OTHER BATTLES 
— HONGI WOUNDED— EFFECT OF HIS DEATH UPON THE TRIBES — 
SLAVERY — FORTIFICATIONS — WEAPONS — CANOES— METHODS OF 
WARFARE — CANNIBALISM — REVENGEFUL CHARACTER OF THE 
NATIVES — PRESERVING THE HEADS OF ENEMIES— MURDEROUS 
EXPLOITS— TREATMENT OF THE DEAD— CEREMONIES AT THE 
HAHUNGA, OR REMOVAL OF BONES— THE HAKARI, A NATIVE FEAST 
— BELIEF RESPECTING THE DEPARTED — SUPERSTITIONS RESPECT- 
ING MAWE, AND THE ORIGIN OF THE ISLANDS— WIRO, THE EVIL 
SPIRIT — PRIESTHOOD— ORNAMENTS WORN AS REMEMBRANCES — 
TATTOOING— HOUSES— FLAX— DRESSES— FISHING— POPULATION. 
The manners, customs, prejudices, and supersti- 
tions of a people living at so great a distance as 
the New Zealanders must be interesting to all 
classes of persons; but particularly to those who 
delight to study the workings of the human mind, 
and the various means which man has adopted 
for the promotion of his earthly comfort, or for 
