“TRADITIONS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS.”
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1882.
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TO THE MEMORY
OF
SIR WILLIAM MARTIN
THESE PAGES ARE DEDICATED,
THE AFFECTIONATE TRIBUTE
OF
A FRIENDSHIP OF MANY YEARS.
PREFACE.
The Maori MSS. of which translations are now publishedwere collected by the author many years ago.The persons through whom the MSS. were obtainedare now, with one exception, no longer living. Theywere all of them men of good birth, and competentauthorities. One who could write sent me, from timeto time, in MS. such information as he himself possessed,or he could obtain from the tohunga, or wisemen of his family. Chapters ...