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impossible. I very much ridiculed the idea of his 
attempting to prove that the canoes kept the Sabbath. 
I tried payment ; but as this was before a crowd of 
people, in the midst of the pa, he still refused, saying 
it was not lawful to buy and sell on the " week." 
Some cooked food, hot from the iron pots, was now 
brought round ; and two or three well-filled kits were 
placed before me. This was the second time that a 
hot meal had been prepared that day. I got up and 
kicked the pile of kits which had been assigned to me 
all over the ground, told my boys to carry my bundles, 
and went out of the pa and encamped among the fern 
close by, saying that if men ought not to paddle, 
women ought not to cook ; and that if canoes were 
tapu, iron pots and firewood were so too. And I re- 
fused to re-enter the fence of the^«. 
The hypocrite came to me soon afterwards by him- 
self, and said that although it was wrong to buy and 
sell, it was allowed to receive a present on the " week ;" 
and began to inquire what-sized present I was inclined 
to give. So that at length, after much haggling, we 
effected a regular bargain : he agreeing to find a small 
canoe which was not tapu, and a man to go with me 
and bring it back, and I to give him a pound of 
tobacco. I selected one of my boys to go with me, as 
the little shell, which was brought round to a secluded 
spot on the river-bank, would only hold three, and that 
by skilful balancing. It was only about 12 feet long 
and 30 inches broad. 
I resolved, however, that the man should not get off 
without full publicity being given to his mean subter- 
fuge. So I shouted to one of my boys, before I de- 
scended the hill, to bring me one of my double-barrelled 
guns. When it came, I began writing with a knife 
upon the stock. The curiosity excited by the call and 
