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TRAVELS
IN
NEW ZEALAND;
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, BOTANY, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THAT COUNTRY.
By ERNEST DIEFFENBACH, M. D.,
Late Naturalist to the New Zealand Company.
In TWO VOLUMES -- Vol.II.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1843.
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
The Natives of New Zealand . . . 1
CHAPTER II.
Diseases of the Natives . . . 13
CHAPTER III.
Native Customs regarding Children -- Tattooing -- Marriage . . . . 24
CHAPTER IV.
The Food of the Natives -- their Clothing -- their Dances -- Witchcraft -- Modes of Burial -- Ideas regarding the Soul . . . . 43
CHAPTER V.
Native Villages and Houses -- Division of the New Zealand Tribes -- Their Numerical Strength . . . 68
CHAPTER VI.
Origin of the New Zealanders, as shown by their Traditions -- Their Religious Observances -- The "Tapu" . . . 84
CHAPTER VII.
The Character and Intellectual Faculties of the New Zealanders -- Their Classes and Grades of Society -- Property -- Religion . . . 107
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CHAPTER VIII.
Native Modes of reckoning Times and Seasons -- Different Sorts of Land -- Modes of Tillage -- Warfare -- Spirit of Revenge -- Their Canoes -- Cannibalism . . . 121
CHAPTER IX.
How to Legislate for the Natives of New Zealand . . . 135
CHAPTER X.
Fauna of New Zealand . . . 177
PART II -- ON THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS.
CHAPTER I.
Introductory Remarks . . . 297
CHAPTER II.
Specimens of the New Zealand Language . . . 305
PART III.
GRAMMAR . . . 326
DICTIONARY . . . 355
