238 ADVENTUKE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. IX. 
my singular proceeding soon attracted the whole 
population of the pa to the spot where the strict 
observer of the Sabbath had hoped to receive his 
pound of tobacco without being seen. 
After I had written, I rose, and addressed him in 
loud tones so that every one might hear. " You have 
" said," cried I, " that you refused me a cjinoe because 
" it is the week — because the canoes are tapuy and 
" because the men must not paddle. And you have said 
" that it is wrong to buy and sell on the week. But 
" the canoe is ready to start ; one of your own men 
" holds the paddle in the stern ; and I am to give you a 
" pound of tobacco. Listen ! this was not your thought 
" when you refused. You wanted to make the price 
" of your kindness to a guest great ; and you thought you 
** were speaking to a tutua (plebeian), who would cheat 
" you out of your reward for the canoe I have written 
" on this gun that this is Tvraweke^ payment for being 
" carried in a canoe from Ptike Totara to Kare kare. 
" Take it ! it is for you ; you have behaved like a mean 
" slave to me. You shall remember that 1 could pay 
** you with the hand of a chief. Remain in your place. 
" Should I ever travel this way again, I will never 
" land in your unkind village, I will never ask for your 
" stingy hospitality. I will not call to your heart, 
" which has two sides like your tongue, and is to be 
" bought by the largest hand. Remain !" And I gave 
him the gun, and walked down the hill into the canoe. 
Although much pleased to get so great a present, the 
man hung down his head with shame ; he could hardly 
articulate the words, *' Go to the sea !" And the rest of 
his tribe clearly felt the reproach which had been cast 
upon them before E Kuru and their other distin- 
guished visitors, who could scarcely conceal tlieir 
delight at the whole proceeding. 
