INDEX. 
479 
Care near the mouth of the Mokau, 
394 
Chapman (Mr.), missionary, 359 
Charm for a stubborn woman, 72 
Chasseland (Thomas), interpreter, 238 
Chatham Isles, its aborigines, 7; 
noticed, 119 
Cherry (Capt.) murdered, 332 
Chief at his meals, 55, 167, 168; 
praying to his god, 62; tapued, 
eating with a fern-stalk, 55 ; re¬ 
ceives three names during life, 156 
Chiefs, native, their treatment by the 
British Government, 270—278 ; 
their burial, 97 
Christ Church, town, 1; Lyttelton, 
218 
Church Missionary Society, its labours 
in New Zealand, 305; stations, 
209 
Church of New Zealand, its future 
constitution, 300—308 
Cloaks made of feathers of the kiwi, 
397, 473 
Clifford (Mr.), jun., 237 
Climate of New Zealand, 251—255, 
262, 460 
Cloth, its ancient material, 185, 194 
Cloudy Bay, 330 
Coal mines, 236, 244 
Cod (ILapuJcii ), 384 
“ Columbine,” a vessel, 227 
Columbus’s discoveries, 205 
Comb, or He Heru, 218 
Concubinage practised, 59 
Confirmation practised by the abo¬ 
rigines, 76 
Conger eel ( ngoiro ), 412 
Constitution given to New Zealand, 
212 
Convicts, their employment on public 
works, 267, 268 
Convolvulus (rauparaha), used for 
food, 323 
Cook (Captain) visits New Zealand, 
5, 6, 19, 133, 190, 194, 195, 206, 
207, 213, 214, 281, 379 
Cook’s Straits settlement founded, 
210; noticed, 117, 207, 214, 242, 
263, 294, 324, 325, 417, 471 
Cooking process by the natives, 389, 
390 ; at a boiling spring, 250 
Copper discovered at Doubtless Bay, 
Kawa Kawa, and the Barrier 
Islands, 244 
Coromandel Harbour, 192, 244, 410 
Corpses, a frame for them till decom¬ 
posed, 341 
Cowper (Rev. Dr.), 297 
Crab fish, 415 
Craters of New Zealand, 221—226 
Crayfish {houra ), 383 
Creation, native traditions of, 14 
Crying, an amusement! 175 
Crying children, how cured, 165 
Cunningham (Allan), the botanist, 
his journey through a forest, 5 
Cursing as practised by the natives, 94 
Customs of the natives resembling 
those alluded to in Scripture, 465, 
466 
Dancing, a favourite amusement, 
174 
Day made distinct from night, 20 
Dead, customs relating to the, 97— 
101 
Deluge, curious tradition respecting 
it, 17, 18 
Despard (Colonel), 346 
Dillon (Chevalier Capt.), his testimo¬ 
nial of Samuel Marsden’s labours, 
295 
Discovery of New Zealand, 205 
Diseases, 254—256 
Diving, an amusement, 174 
Dog, the native, 395 
Doubtless Bay, 194, 215, 244 
Dreams vehicles of communication, 
74; explained, 160—162 
Drury (Capt.) on the earthquake at 
Wellington, 232—234 
Ducks, Paradise; the putangi tavgi, 
329 
Dunedin, capital of Otako, 218 
Dusky Bay tribe, 218, 235, 348 
Ear ornaments, 150 
Earthquakes at Wellington, 212, 472; 
at Wanganui, 226—228; in the 
islands of New Zealand, 471, 472 
Easter Island, 189, 192 
Ectropium, complaint of the eyelids, 
254 
Eel {tuna), a delicacy, 135, 166, 413 ; 
how taken and cooked, 382, 383 
Evangelical Alliance, 307 
Eel cuts, or drains made from lakes, 
384 
Egmont (Taranaki), a lofty mountain, 
147, 215, 242, 269 
Embalming described, 154 
