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MARRIAGE. 
If you dream of a friend who is on a journey, and that you 
speak to him and receive a reply, it is a sure sign that person 
is not coming back. 
If you dream of friends, and they turn to you, and you see 
them in good health, it is a bad sign. 
If you dream of a friend on a journey, but do not see his 
face, which he turns away from you, as persons do who dance 
the maimai, or nya ngahu, it is a good sign of your friend 
being near his home. 
If you dream of your kumara shooting vigorously, it is a 
sign of a good crop. 
If you dream you hear the name of your absent friend 
mentioned, and that you go to look for him, but do not see 
his face, it is a sure sign of soon meeting him. 
If you dream of swimming, it prognosticates a rainy day. 
If you are ill, and dream of some absent friend, who turns 
and salutes you, it is a good sign that you will recover, and 
again see your friend. 
Kawana Paipai, when at a distance from home, laid up 
with sickness, dreamed that he saw his minister’s wife, who 
turned to him and shook his hand ; this good omen so cheered 
him up, that he speedily got well, and on his return, the 
first thing he did was to go and call on her and shake hands 
with her. 
If a tohunga, who accompanies a taua, or war party, dreams 
that his atua is killed by the atua of the place they are going 
to attack, it is such a bad omen that the taua immediately 
returns. 
If a person dreams that he sees another coming to kill him, 
it is a good sign. The person seen will be killed himself. 
One way of obtaining answers from the gods, was by dreams. 
When the priest was in any doubt, he waited for his god to 
reveal his will to him by dreams, and he generally had one 
which conveyed the required information.* 
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The Maori seem to differ from almost every known tribe or 
nation in having no regular Marriage Ceremony ; they had no 
* See 1 Sam. xxix., 15. 
