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APPENDIX. 
APPENDIX A. 
A list of New Zealand customs resembling those alluded to in Scripture as 
being common in Israel, or to the heathen around them, for conformity to 
many of which they were driven from their inheritance :— 
I. Sacrifices of the dead. In the hahunga, or raising of the bones of 
the dead, the natives assembled together, and having scraped the 
bones 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. 
II. Cutting the flesh for grief— Lev. xix. 28; xxi. 5; Deut. xiv. 1; 
Jer. xvi. 6 ; xli. 5 ; xlvii. 5 ; xlviii. 37. 
III. Sorcery , witchcraft. —Lev. xix. 26; Deut. xviii. 10, 11; 2 Kings 
xvii. 17 ; xxi. 6. 
IV. Tatooing. —Lev. xix. 28 ; Jer. iv. 30. 
V. Crying when friends meet. —G-en. xxix. 11; xxxiii. 4; xlv. 14, 15; 
xlvi. 29. 
VI. Eating their enemies, a figurative term in Scripture, but evidently 
borrowed from ancient custom.—Ps. xiv. 4; xxvii. 2; Jer. x. 25 ; 
Micah iii. 3 ; Zech. xi. 9. 
VII. Eurning the dead .—Amos vi. 10; 1 Sam. xxxi. 12. 
VIII. Putting meat and flesh into baslcets. —Gen. xl. 17 ; Ex. xxix. 3 ; 
2 Kings x. 7. 
IX. The bridegroom paying for his bride. —Gen. xxxiv. 12; Ex. xxii. 16; 
Deut. xxii. 29 ; 1 Sam. xviii. 25. 
X. Casting lots .—Joshua vii. 14, 16; 1 Sam. x. 20, 21; xiv. 41, 42; 
Prov. xvi. 33 ; Acts i. 26. 
XI. Regulations for cleanliness— Deut. xxiii. 13; the natives formerly 
used the mere for a similar purpose. 
XII. Culling the hair for grief, or as a sign of mourning .—Lev. xxi. 5 ; 
Deut. xiv. 1; Isaiah xv. 2; xxii. 12; Jer. xl. 5; xlvii. 37; Ezek. 
vii. 18 ; xxvii. 31. 
XIII. Eating of blood.—Ge n. ix. 4; Lev. iii. 17; vii. 26; xvii. 10, 14 ; 
xix. 26; Deut. xii. 16; xv. 23; 1 Sam. xiv. 32, 33; Ezek.xxxiu. 25; 
xliv. 7, 15 ; Acts xv. 20, 29. 
XIV. Crying for the dead. —Gen. xxvii. 41 ; 1. 3, 4, 10; Xum. xx. 29; 
Deut. xxxiv. 8; 2 Sam. i. 12, 17 ; iii- 32 ; Acts viii. 2. 
XV. The law of blood. —Gen. ix. 6; Ex. xxi. 12 ; Lev. xxiv. 1/ ; 2 Sam. 
iii. 30; 1 Kings ii. 32 ; Kev. xiii. 10. 
XVI. Hair used in sacrifice. —Ezck. v. 1—4. 
XVII. The younger brother talcing the elder brother's wife after his death. 
Gen. xxxviii. 8 ; Deut. xxv. 5 ; Matt. xxii. 24. 
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