INDEX. 
483 
Maize cultivated, 379 
Maketu, achief, 61,90, 355; a locality, 
121, 277 
Makutu. See Witchcraft. 
Mamaku, a tree fern, 379 
Mamaku, Chief of the Nga ti rangi, 
351—357 
Man, how formed, 23 
Manawa-pou, 241, 278 
Manawatu river, 139, 141, 240, 325; 
earthquake at, 230 
Manga nui a te Ao, a tributary of the 
Wanganui, 65, 126, 273 
Mangonui in Doubtless Bay, 215 
Mani-a-poto tribe, 156 
Maniapoto, a chief, 145 
Manihera, a Christian chief and 
martyr, 161, 357—370, 475 
Manukau harbour, 121, 214, 215 
Maari, its etymology, 178; noticed, 
7, 9, 19, 29, 32, 35, 44, 46, 71, 96, 
119, 162, 178, 196, 200 
Mapera, a lake, tradition of its forma¬ 
tion, 122; noticed, 222 
Maria Yan Dieman, 206 
Marikoriko, or twilight, 18 
Mariner’s Tonga Isles, 186 
Marion du Fresne, 206, 207 
Marriage recommended to emigrants, 
461 
Mars, the planet, called Maru, 35 : see 
Maru, 
Marsden (Miss Mary Ann), 292 
Marsden (Rev. Samuel), his early life, 
282; his mission to Norfolk Island, 
283; founder of the New Zealand 
mission, 285—294; his death and 
funeral, 295; his devoted zeal, 
295—299; noticed, 195, 208, 210, 
308—312; 331, 373 
Maru, a god of war, 33, 35,40, 41,67, 
85 
Mascarin, massacre of, 206 
Mason (Rev. John), drowned, 211 
Massacre Bay, 236 
Matai, mai ( dacrydium ), 440 
Matamata, 293 
Mata te ra, 193 
Matene Ruta hung, 157 
Matene te Whiwhi, a chief, 210, 277, 
331 
Matouri Bay, 286, 287 
Matthews (Rev. J.), of Kaitaia, 82 
Matuku, tradition of, 115, 116 
Maui, a mythological hero ; his mar¬ 
vellous exploits, 23—28; contention 
with Mauika, 29, 30; his death, 
31; noticed, 33, 52, 124,128, 186 
Mauika, the father of fire, 29, 33 
Maungamuka, 314 
Maungatautari, 323 
Mawae, a Putiki chief, 351 
Mawe pa, 345 
Meals of the natives, 167 
Melbourne, 262 
Melon cultivated, 378 
Men with wings at Waitotara, 33, 34 
Mere, a stone battle-axe, engraving of 
one, 31, 473, 474; noticed, 77, 79, 
244, 330, 348; Wesleyan station, 
188 
Meremere, the evening star, 140, 
141 
Meremere Pounamu, presented to the 
Queen, 244 
Mercury Bay, 313 
Meteoric stones, 42 
Meteorological table of London and 
New Zealand, 470, 471 
Meteors, frequent in New Zealand, 
42, 43 
Meurant (Mr.), Government interpre¬ 
ter, 238 
Mice, arrival of a colony of, 213 
Middle Island, earthquake at, 232— 
239 ; its rocks, 244; noticed, 209, 
252, 335, 339 
Miro (podocarpus ferruginea), 439 
Mission at New Zealand founded by 
Samuel Marsden, 281—299 
Moa ( dinornis ), the ostrich, 237, 238, 
243, 245 
Moa Upoko tribe, 325, 326 
Moeone, a small bronze beetle, 118 
Mokau, 91, 243, 244 
Moko, or tattoo, 150—154 
Moko Titi, a lizard god, 34 
Molesworth (Sir Wm.) introduces 
Hoani Wiremu Hipango to Queen 
Victoria, 473, 474 
Molyneaux River, 218, 236 
Monoa, son of Whiro, 69—71, 124 
Months, grumbling, 168 
Moon, the natives’ idea of its spots, 
95 ; used for reckoning time, 175 
—178; its twenty-eight nights, 
177 
Moses Tawai, a chief, 343 
Mottoes, 146, 147 
Motuapuhi, 325 
Motu Karamu, German Mission 
station, 60 
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