Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times

A Wrestling Match.--Beef against Melons.--The Victor gains a Loss.--"Our Chief."--His Speech.--His _status_ in the Tribe.--Death of "Melons."--Rumours of Peace and War.--Getting...

"My Rangatira."--The respective Duties of the Pakeha and his Rangatira.--Public Opinion.--A "Pakeha Kino."--Description of my Rangatira.--His Exploits and Misadventures.--His Mo...

The Muru falling into Disuse.--Why.--Examples of the Tapu.--The Personal Tapu.--Evading the Tapu.--The Undertaker's Tapu.--How I got Tabooed.--Frightful Difficulties.--How I got...

I never yet could get the proper knack of telling a story. Here I am now, a good forty years ahead of where I ought to be, talking of "title deeds" and "land commissioners," thi...

Introductory.--First View of New Zealand.--First Sight of the Natives, and First Sensations experienced by a mere Pakeha.--A Maori Chief's Notions of Trading in the Old Times.--...

Excitement caused by first Contact with Europeans.--The two great Institutions of Maori Land.--The Muru.--The Tapu. Instances of Legal Robbery.--Descriptions and Examples of the...

In the afternoon I went home musing on what I had heard and seen. "Surely," thought I, "if one half of the world does not know how the other half live, neither do they know how...

The Market Price of a Pakeha.--The Value of a Pakeha "as such."--Maori Hospitality in the Good Old Times.--A respectable Friend.--Maori Mermaids.--My Notions of the Value of Gol...

From the years 1822 to 1826, the vessels trading for flax had, when at anchor, boarding nettings up to the tops; all the crew were armed, and, as a standing rule, not more than...

Pakehas, though precious in the good old times, would sometimes get into awkward scrapes. Accidents, I have observed, will happen at the best of times. Some time after the matte...

A story-teller, like a poet or a pugilist, must be _born_, and not _made_, and I begin to fancy I have not been born under a story-telling planet, for by no effort that I can ma...

Every Englishman's House is his Castle.--My Estate and Castle.-- How I purchased my Estate.--Native Titles to Land, of what Nature. --Value of Land in New Zealand.--Land Commiss...

These priests or _tohunga_ would, and do to this hour, undertake to call up the spirit of any dead person, if paid for the same. I have seen many of these exhibitions, but one i...

Then came the _tapu tohunga_, or priest's _tapu_, a quite different kind or form of _tapu_ from those which I have spoken of. These _tohunga_ presided over all those ceremonies...

There was a kind of variation on the _tapu_, called _tapa_, of this nature. For instance, if a chief said, "That axe is my head," the axe became his to all intents and purposes;...

A Wrestling Match.--Beef against Melons.--The Victor gains a Loss. --"Our Chief."--His Speech.--His _status_ in the Tribe.--Death of "Melons."--Rumours of Peace and War.--Gettin...

Introductory.--First View of New Zealand.--First Sight of the Natives, and First Sensations experienced by a mere Pakeha.--A Maori Chief's Notions of Trading in the Old Times.--...

"My Rangatira."--The respective Duties of the Pakeha and his Rangatira.--Public Opinion.--A "Pakeha Kino."--Description of my Rangatira.--His Exploits and Misadventures.--His Mo...

Excitement caused by first Contact with Europeans.--The two great Institutions of Maori Land.--The Muru.--The Tapu.--Instances of Legal Robbery.--Descriptions and Examples of th...

The Market Price of a Pakeha.--The Value of a Pakeha "as such."-- Maori Hospitality in the Good Old Times.--A respectable Friend.-- Maori Mermaids.--My Notions of the Value of G...

The Muru falling into Disuse.--Why.--Examples of the Tapu.--The Personal Tapu.--Evading the Tapu.--The Undertaker's Tapu.--How I got Tabooed.--Frightful Difficulties.--How I got...

Every Englishman's House is his Castle.--My Estate and Castle.--How I purchased my Estate.--Native Titles to Land, of what Nature.--Value of Land in New Zealand.--Land Commissio...

How I kept House.--Maori Freebooters.--An Ugly Customer.--The "Suaviter in Modo."--A Single Combat to amuse the Ladies.--The true Maori Gentleman.--Character of the Maori People...