76 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. IV. 
Enai, the Kawia chief, had taken great pains to 
depreciate him in our estimation when we were at Port 
Gore, by saying that he was no chief, and that his 
name was not Nayti, but Eriki Nono, a term, when 
translated, expressive of some contempt. We attri- 
buted a good deal of this to EnaPs envy of Nayti 
for possessing so many fine things. Nayti, however, 
who had confirmed us in our supposition that the name 
Eriki, applied to him constantly by the Ship Cove and 
Te-awa-iti people, signified " chief," now allowed it to 
be only a corruption of Dicky, by which name he had 
served, when a boy, in whale-boats at Cloudy Bay. 
We also discovered that he was not so well related as 
he had stated in England, but that the great attention 
paid to him by people of the highest classes there had 
very naturally induced him to give a tacit consent to 
the term "chief" or "prince," by which they often 
designated him : we therefore attached no blame to 
him for this assumption. The confused idea which 
the natives have of relationship, too, had assisted in 
causing him to make this mistake. A native will 
often state another man to be his tuakana, or " elder 
" brother," meaning only that he is of an elder branch of 
the same family. In like manner, matua, or " parent," 
implies no direct parentage, but often indicates only a 
slight relationship of a person of the older generation 
in the same family. Nayti had told us of his nume- 
rous brothers and sisters, having in fact neither one nor 
the other, but meaning cousins in various degrees. 
We found one solitary white man, named Joe Ro- 
binson, living in a village near the mouth of the river, 
having taken a native wife from the tribe. We saw a 
proof of his industry and ingenuity in the shape of a 
boat, the planks for which he had cut with a hand- 
saw: and he had made all the nails himself out of iron 
