INDEX 
Aborigines, their treatment by civi¬ 
lized nations, 2 
Acacia (clianthus puniceus), parrot’s 
bill, 207. Kowai. Edwardsia mi- 
crophylla, 450 
Ahuriri, on the east coast, 28, 216, 
217, 244, 339, 462 
Aia, the widow of Pehi, 328 
Akaroa, a French settlement, 210, 218 
Akira, his baptism, 318 
Alatana, one of the new Hebrides, 374 
Albert (Prince), his interview with the 
New Zealand Chief Hoani Wiremu, 
473, 474 
Allan (John), 423 
American Episcopal Church, 305 
Amo, a Taupo chief, 145 
Anonokia, a slave, 36 
Aotea, 118—121, 215 
Apiti, a term for cursing, 94 
Araara, a fish, 410, 411 
Arakura, 120 
Arapawa, Queen Charlotte’s Sound, 
120, 207, 326 
Ara-tuku-tuku, progenitor of the Ta- 
niwlias, 50 
Arawa mountains, 120 
Arero, the pa of, 107 
Arikio, or high chiefs, 42, 155, 186 
Arohi-rohi, which formed the first 
woman, 18 
Assembly, General, met at Auckland, 
212 
Atene, or Oawitu, a village on the 
Wanganui, 342 
Atu ahu, or charm, 72, 73 
Atua Potiki, or infant gods, 19, 88, 
186, 225 
Auckland Isles, 218 
Auckland, suggested as a capital by 
Capt. Cook, 206, 214; made the 
seat of government, 211; govern¬ 
ment-house burnt, 212 ; its locality 
as a province, 213 ; harbour, 214; 
trade, ib .; craters, 222; view of, 
259; noticed, 252, 273, 279, 337, 
346, 347, 355, 368 
Aukehu kills a monster fish, 52 
Aupouri, or North Cape, 118 
Aute, the inner bark of the Uoheria 
populnea , 137 
Awa, tidal-river fish, 411 
Awato, the grub of a sphinx moth, 118 
Babel, tradition of the dispersion, 68 
Ball, game with an ornamented, 174 
Ballet Eock, near Evans’s Bay, 472 
Bally Eock, off Point Jerningham, 231 
Balmoral estate in Scotland, its cost, 
264 
Banks’s Peninsula, 218 
Baptismal regeneration ruled by the 
Australian bishops, 303, 304 
Baptismal rites {He Told ) of the 
aborigines, 74—76 
Barrier Islands, 244 
Basaltic rocks, 222 
Baskets used for serving up food, 55, 
167, 168, 175 
Bat, two kinds of, 395 
Baths for invalids, 221, 222 
Battles of the natives, 258 
Bay of Islands, 195, 206, 207, 208, 
209, 210, 214, 221, 243, 270, 273, 
286, 287, 290, 331; declared a free 
port, 211 
Bear, the sea {rapoka), 395 
Beards condemned by the natives, 151 
