CONTENTS. 
punishments — Industry, compared with Friendly- 
Islanders — Food — Cooking — Methods of drying fish 
-^Chewing Kauri-gum — Tobacco — Sports — AVarlike 
propensities — Predatory excursions — fatal effects of 
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 — Ca- 
noes and war-vessels— -Methods of warfare — Canni- 
balism — Revengeful character of the Natives — Pre- 
serving the heads of enemies — ^Murderous exploits 
— Treatment of the dead — Ceremonies at the Ha- 
hunga, or removal of Bones — the Ilakari, a native 
feast — Belief respecting the departed — Superstitions 
respecting .Mawe, and the origin of the Islands — Wiro, 
the Evil Spirit — The Priesthood — Ornaments worn as 
remembrances — Tattooing — Houses — Flax — Dresses 
— Fishing — Population fiO — 1C4 
CHAP. IV. 
Origination of the New-Zealand Mission — Difficulties— 
Rangihoua, the first Station, afterwards removed to 
Tepuna — Visit of Hongi and Waikato to England — 
Kerikeri, the second Station — Difficulties at its forma- 
tion, and for the first few years — Paihfa, the third 
Station — Official account of it — Waimate, the fourth 
Station — \'illages, Chapels, and Schools connected 
with it — Kaitaia, the fifth Station — Puriri, the sixth 
Station — Other Stations projected Ifj5 — 210 
CHAP. V. 
Effects consequent on the introduction of the Gospel into 
New Zealand — illustrated in a great variety of parti- 
culars — Establishment of the observance of the Lord’s 
Day — Religious conversations — Churches — Fixing of 
the language — Translation of the Scriptures and 
