Te Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants

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  • Aborigines, their treatment by civilized nations, 2

  • Acacia (clianthus puniceus), parrot's bill, 207. Kowai. Edwardaia microphylla, 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 baptiam, 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, 86

  • Aotea, 118-121, 215

  • Apiti, a term for cursing, 94

  • Araara, a flsh, 410, 411

  • Arahura, 120

  • Arapawa, Queen Charlotte's Sound, 120, 207, 326

  • Ara-tuku-tuku, progenitor of the Taniwhas, 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; government-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 Hoheria populnea, 137

  • Awa, tidal-river flsh, 411

  • Awato, the grub of a sphinx moth, 118

  • Babel, tradition of the dispersion, 68

  • Ball, game with an ornamented, 174

  • Ballet Rock, near Evans's Bay, 472

  • Bally Rock, 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 Tohi) of the aborigines, 74—76

  • Barrier Islands, 244

  • Basaltio 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

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  • Beetle, different varieties, 421, 423

  • Bell found embedded under a tree, 184

  • Birds:—Apterix Australis (kiwi), 220, 396

  • Bittern (matuku), 119, 120

  • Dinornis, 220

  • Flycatcher (piwakawaka), 27

  • Hawk (kahu), 400

  • Hihi, 30

  • Hoiho, the penguin, 408

  • Huia, 150, 400

  • Kaiaia, sparrow-hawk, 37, 400

  • Kaka, brown parrot, 381, 404

  • Kakapo, or tarepo, 238, 381, 405

  • Kakariki, green parrot, 131, 161, 382, 404

  • Katatai (rallus assimilis), 399

  • Kauwau, or karuhiruhi, 408

  • Kereru, or wood-pigeon, 381, 406

  • Kiwi (apterix Australis), 220, 238, 380, 396—398, 473, 474

  • Koekoea, bird of passage, 178

  • Kohoperoa, bird of passage, 178, 405

  • Koitareke, or kokoreke, 400, 406

  • Kokako, the crow, 30, 117, 403

  • Kokoreke, the quail, 400, 406

  • Korimako, singing bird, 75, 402

  • Korora, the penguin, 408

  • Kotare (halcyon vagans), 400

  • Kotihe, honey-bird, 402

  • Kotuku, white crane, 407

  • Koukou, or ruru, 400

  • Matata, or koroatito, 403

  • Matuku, or bittern, 119, 407

  • Miromiro, and mirotoitoi, 403

  • Moa, or dinornis, 132, 220, 237, 398

  • Moho periru, or motarua, 37, 399, 400

  • Parera, the duck, 407

  • Paroquet, the green, 118, 137

  • Patatai, or popotai, 399

  • Pihoihoi, 404

  • Piopio, bird of passage, 403

  • Pipiwarauroa, bird of passage, 178, 406

  • Piwaka-waka, 31, 403

  • Powakai, an immense bird, 398

  • Pukeko (porphyrio), 37, 118, 123, 246, 399

  • Putangitangi, paradise duck, 407

  • Rallus dieffenbachii, 399

  • Riro-riro, the wren, 48, 132, 403

  • Sparrow-hawk, 132

  • Takahe (notornis), 399

  • Tars, a small sea-bird, 70, 123

  • Tarapunga, 407

  • Tieke, 30, 404

  • Titi, a sea-bird, 132, 382, 408

  • Tongo-hiti, 39

  • Torea, black sea-bird, 406

  • Toroa, albatross, 408

  • Totoara, 30, 408

  • Totoriwai, 400

  • Tui, 150, 381, 401

  • Weka, 238, 381, 399

  • Wio, the blue duck, 407

  • Bird-traps, 381

  • Bishop's College, 312

  • Bishops of Australia, their conference at Sydney, 303

  • Bishop's wig, its disuse, 148

  • Bligh (Capt.), Governor of New South Wales, 283, 297

  • Blood, payment for shedding, 352 (note)

  • Botany of New Zealand, 430—457

  • Boulder Bank harbour, Nelson, 265

  • Bouleott's Farm, 350

  • Box, carved, or he papa, 280

  • Boyd, massacre of its crew, 206, 285, 286, 314

  • Bread, process of making, 390—393

  • Bread-fruit (uri), 183

  • Brompton, its wreck, 291

  • Broughton (Wm. Grant), Bishop of Australia, 294, 299

  • Brown (Rev. Mr.), 369

  • Burial rites, 97—101

  • Burke (Sir Richard), his Church Act, 304

  • Busby (Mr.), appointed British resident, 209

  • Butterflies (pepe), 420

  • Cabbage introduced by Capt. Cook, 206; cultivated, 378

  • Californian gold mines, 261, 268

  • Cannibalism abolished, 10, 211; noticed, 194

  • Canoe preparing for sea, 171

  • Canoes, list of those that brought the first settlers, 123; the first made by Toto, 124

  • Canterbury Colony founded, 212, 218, 237, 264, 462

  • Cape Maria Van Dieman, the spirits' flying place, 28

  • Cartwright (Rev. R.), 297

  • Cascade Point, 236

  • Caterpillar, the bulrush, 422—425

  • Cavalloa, 208

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  • Cave 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; receives 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 (Hapuku), 384

  • “Columbine,” a vessel, 227

  • Columbus's discoveries, 205

  • Comb, or He Heru, 218

  • Concubinage practised, 59

  • Confirmation practised by the aborigines, 76

  • Conger eel (ngoiro), 412

  • Constitution given to New Zealand, 212

  • Convicts, their employment on public works, 267, 268

  • Convolvulus (rawparaha), 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 decomposed, 341

  • Cowper (Rev. Dr.), 297

  • Crab fish, 415

  • Craters of New Zealand, 221—226

  • Crayfish (koura), 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 testimonial 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 tangi, 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

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  • Emigration to New Zealand since it became a British colony, 213; recommended, 259—269; hints to intended emigrants, 458—462

  • Enau, a Christian native, 358, 359

  • Enderby (Lieut.), Governor of the Auckland Isles, 212, 218

  • England (Capt.), 334

  • Erebus, Mount, 225

  • Europeans, their traffic in the heads of the natives, 154

  • “Every Man his own Physician,” a French work, 72

  • Eyre (Lieut.), Governor, 212, 228, 236, 389

  • Idol, memorial, 62: of a chief slain in battle, 54

  • Ignis Fatuus, 426—429

  • Ihi, Chief of the Taupo Taniwha, 50

  • Ikunikau, 354

  • Image worship, 54, 62, 72, 73

  • Inanga, a small fish, 383

  • Infanticide, common, 165

  • Influenza, 255

  • Ingarani, England, 158

  • Irawaru, the father of dogs, 26, 33

  • Irish sailor bewitched, 90; his cure, 91

  • Iron sand, magnetic, valuable article of commerce, 243

  • Islands submerged, 242

  • Israel, dispersion of its tribes, 190, 191

  • Iwikau te Heuheu, 360

  • Laburnum of New Zealand, 168

  • Lamprey, a favourite fish, 167, 382, 383, 412

  • Land, its minimum price, 212, 215, 261—264; how held by the natives, 384

  • Landmarks, or boundary-stones, 385, 386

  • Lang (Dr.), Presbyterian minister, 298

  • Language, showing the origin of the New Zealander, 177—203

  • Lattice-work (arapaki), indicatesskill, 185

  • Lava courses, 222, 223

  • Laye (Capt.), 352

  • Lee (Professor), his New Zealand Grammar, 208, 310

  • Leech, water (sangsis nga), 421

  • Leigh (Rev. Mr.), Wesleyan minister, 291

  • Leprosy, 248, 255

  • Light, the period of, 14

  • Limestone, 243; cave, ib.

  • Lion, the sea (phoca jubata), 395

  • Lizards, several kinds, 408, 409

  • Locusts (tarakihi), 419, 421

  • Love songs, 142, 143

  • Lovell (barrack-sergeant), killed by an earthquake, 228

  • Lyttelton, or Port Cooper, 212, 218, 237, 264

  • Obsidian, instrument for cutting hair, 93

  • Ochre and oil much used, 149

  • O'Donohu, the bush-ranger, executed, 297

  • Ohaiawai, 350

  • Ohau, a creek, 139, 141, 228, 325

  • Ohinemotu, 223

  • Onga onga (urticeœ), 441

  • Orakokorako, on the Waikato, 223

  • Orau moa bay, 329

  • Orawaro, near Fakerau, 51

  • Ornamenta for the person, 148—155

  • Orono, deity at Hawaii, 19

  • Ostrich, or Moa, 237

  • Otahuhu, 121

  • Otake, engraving of the church at, 65; noticed, 42, 90, 139, 141, 277, 335, 337

  • Otako, a Scotch settlement, 211, 218, 264, 462

  • Otaua, near the Bay of Islands, 221

  • Oulad Riahs, mountain tribe, 9; massacred, 10

  • Ovens of the natives, 389, 392

  • Owa, the father of the dog, 33

  • Owl, its various names, 196

  • Oyster (ostrœa), 417