TRIBES, POPULATION, AND CUSTOMS OP NEW ZEALAND. 411 
TABLE OF THE TRIBES AND POPULATION OF NEW 
ZEALAND. 
Names. 
Locality. 
Numbers. 
Aupouri - 
North Cape, Three Kings, Wangaroa Bay- 
400 
Rarawa - 
Kaitaia, Hokianga - 
2,000 
Nga Puhi 
Wangaroa, Bay of Islands, Hokianga 
6,000 
Nga ti Whatua 
Kaipara Manukau Waitemata 
4,000 
Na ti Tama - 
Rotorua - 
500 
Nga te Paoa - 
Gulf of Hauraki - 
1,000 
Na ti W aka we 
Rotorua - 
4,000 
Waikato 
Manukau, Aotea-Kawia - 
Waingaroa Waipa, Waikato 
4.000 
2.000 
Matamata, Mokau - 
4,000 
Maunga Tautari - 
2,000 
Nga ti Maru - 
Thames - - - - - 
1,000 
Na te Pehi 
Taupo and Wanganui - 
2,000 
Nga ti Ruanui 
Taranaki 
Nga Rua hine 
Tangahoe Nga Rauru - 
2,000 
Nga ti Apa 
Wangaihu Rangitikei - 
600 
Nga ti Hau 
Wanganui - 
600 
Nga ti Potama 
Wanganui - 
3,000 
Nga ti Rauru - 
Wanganui - - ... - 
Nga ti Ruaka 
Wanganui - 
Nga ti tahi 
Upper Wanganui - 
2,000 
Nga ti Kura - 
Wakatane - - - - - 
4,000 
Mua-upoko 
Panari Manawatu - 
1,000 
Nga ti Awa - 
E. Coast Tauranga - 
4,000 
Nga ti Raukawa 
Otaki Manawatu - - - 
1,000 
Nga ti Tuaratoa - j 
Taupo, Maniatipoto Na ti Hohera, Na ti tu 
Rumakina, Na ti Kurarua 
2,000 
Nga ti Kahungunu - 
E. Coast Turanga - 
Ahuriri in Hawke’s Bay - 
2,400 
Rangitani 
2,600 
Nga Ngaitahu - j 
Middle Island, Motu eka Otago, Chatham 
Isles - 
2,600 
Scattered remains of tribes overlooked in 
this list - 
4,300 
Total - 
65,000 
A list of New Zealand customs resembling those alluded to in Scripture as 
being common to Israel, or the heathen around them, for conformity with 
which they were driven from their inheritance : — 
I. Sacrifices of the dead. In the hahunga, or raising of the bones of 
tlie dead, the natives assembled together, and having scraped 
' and painted them with red ochre, they placed food upon them, 
and danced around them during the night, by the light of fires, 
and afterwards ate these offerings of the dead. — Ps. cvi. 28. 
