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powder eater : these are names showing their love of war. 
Others mark their growing attachment for domestic com- 
forts, and a. peaceful life :—Kai Imka is sugar-eater ; nga hiti, 
sheets ; ti kapa, tea cup ; ti kera, tea kettle ; tipota, teapot ; 
tupeka, tobacco. Nor is even the final abode of man lost 
sight of : kawena, coffin, is a favorite appellation. Names 
thus chronicle the introduction of new articles, and record 
any striking event; it was in 1854 the measles made their 
first appearance in New Zealand. A child was brought 
for baptism ; on inquiring its native name, the mother 
said it was Mate haere, the spreading disease. In the same 
way a person who was grateful for his recovery from some 
dangerous disease, assumed the name of Tumahu, the con- 
valescent. 
Their lands and roads are all named ; so also the sea 
beaches round the islands ; their horses, cows, and pigs, 
even their trees, especially the karaka ; rocks and fountains. 
Go where you will, in the midst of an apparently untrodden 
wilderness, ask, has this spot a name ? and any native be- 
longing to that district will immediately give one. 
The name for religion is Rakau Tapu, the sacred tree, 
intimating that their most ancient form of worship was that 
of the tree or grove. Tauira , an example, is also another 
term for it, implying that religion gives a pattern or ex- 
ample of the way men should live. Waka pakoko , an idol, 
meaning to cause to be dried up or fruitless. 
The name given to Europeans in most parts of Polynesia 
is Papalangi. Papa signifies a level or flat surface, indi- 
cating the first idea of the white man to have been that he 
came from one of the ten heavens, which were supposed to 
be formed much the same as the earth. In New Zealand the 
European is called Pakeha. Kea in Hawaiki or the Sand- 
wich Isles is the obsolete term for white, and there also is 
applied to white people, in New Zealand it would be Keha , 
which is likewise a name given to them, e te Keha !. is an 
expression of admiration for his superior knowledge. O the 
white man ! (how clever). Pakeha may also imply that he 
comes from a strange or foreign pa which is very far off. 
