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INDEX. 
Taupo Taniwha, 50, 94 
Tauranga, 120, 209, 215, 294, 398 
Tauteka, a Taupo chief, 319, 358 
Tauwara, a high mountain, 145 
Tawaki, his mythical history, 17, 33, 
35—40 
Tawirimatea, father of the winds, 19, 
20, 33 
Taylor (Mr.), letters of Ranga tapu 
to him, 475 
Teka, a game with fern-stalks, 110 
Temple of the tribes described, 65—70 
Tepuna, 289 
Thames, a river, 142, 165, 190, 209, 
214, 215, 293, 294, 312, 313 
Thierry (Baron de), an adventurer, 
209 
Thieving, the gods of, 69 
Thompson (Capt.), commander of the 
Boyd, 208 
Thought, its epoch, 14 
“ Three Kings,” or lava courses, 222, 
285 
Ti {cordeline Australis ), 435 
Tihoi, 324 
Tiki, the father of man, 18, 19, 23, 33 
Tikihemi, or eel trout, 383 
Tikitere, 223 
Timber (Kauri), 221 
Time, how reckoned, 176 
Tini-rau, a great chief, tradition of 
him, 107—114, 157 
Tino ariki, or chief priest, 75 
Tirah, a meal given by the Rajah of, 
167 
Titapua, a submerged island, 242 
Titihai, god of the ankles and feet, 34 
Toa, or warrior, 79 
Tohunga, or priest, 42, 93 
Tohora, the whale, 136 
Toi {dracena indivisa), 435 
Toitoi stalks used as a game, 173 
Tokanu, 224, 360, 361, 364, 368 
Tokumaru natives, 208 
Tologa Bay, 206 
Tonga, 7, 9, 19, 28, 34, 41, 186—188 
Tongariro, a lofty mountain, 28, 60, 
134, 215, 216, 223—226, 244, 252, 
322, 340 
Topi, a chief, 349 
Toronaihi explained, 201 
“ Tory,” the first ship of the New 
Zealand Land Company, 332 
Totara ( podocarpus ), 439 
Totara trees, 237, 241 
Toto, the maker of the first canoe, 124 
Treaty of Waitangi, 210 
Tribes of New Zealand, 468 
Tu, a god of war, 33, 80 
Tuahu, a short stone pillar, 73 ; or 
altar, 94 
Tua-riki, or little gods, 49 
Tuatanga, or naming a child, 75, 112, 
156 
Tuatara, the guana, 135 
Tuatini, a fish, 136 
Tuhuruhuru, a chief, 110—112 
Tuki, his visit to Norfolk Island 
195, 285 
Tukupuarangi, or the Cloudy Atmos¬ 
phere, 247, 248 
Tumata-uenga, or Tutenganahau, 19, 
20 
Tumatua, 135 
Tumuwakairia, a principal chief of the 
Mani-a-poto, 156 
Tuna, the eel, 135, 166, 382, 413 
Tupaia, the Tabaitian chief, 207 
Tuparaunui, a large fly, 121 
Tuparitapu, god of consumption, 34 
Tupeke, or invocation, 61; a war- 
dance, 80 
Tupuna, 155 
Turakina river, 140, 211 
Turakirae, a mountain, 28 
Turanga pito, 325 
Turi, an early settler, 117—120, 123, 
124, 139, 141 
Turkev-cock venerated by the natives, 
53 ' 
Turnip, introduced by Capt. Cook, 
206 ; cultivated, 378 
Turoa, 325 
Turuki {cordeline stricta ), 435 
Turutu, 374 
Turuturu, a pole with a cross, 152 
Tu-tangata-kino, god of the stomach, 
34 
Tutemanoa, the father of the Kahi- 
katoa, 33 
Tute-nga-nahau, the father of evil, 33 
Tute ou nuku, 329, 330, 349 
Tutu {coriaria sarmentosa ), its juice, 
Tuwairore, the father of the Kuh- 
katea and Rimu, 33 
Tuwhare, head chief of the Ngati- 
whatua, 156, 324 
Uaua, Cook’s spring at, 206 
Uenuku, god of the rainbow, 41, 117 
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