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WAR CEREMONIES. 
she got it restored, her father said, if you took it back 
again after having given it to him it is an aitua, an evil 
omen, you will certainly die, and so she did. She was a fine, 
tall, commanding looking woman. 
Her father, Pomare, soon followed her to the grave. 
Her partner is now a man of wealth, and poor Nota Elwes, 
her child, who survives, has been abandoned by her unna- 
tural father, as well as her mother, the once well-known 
and admired “ Nga Hum.” Such is a short episode in the 
history of New Zealand. 
THE PROW OF A WAR CANOE. 
