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CONTENTS TO THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
Cannibalism of the New Zealanders -- Anecdotes attesting the facts -- Anathemas of the natives -- Systematic treachery towards each other -- Murder of a flax collector -- Native ideas respecting treachery -- Ingenuity in workmanship -- Art of carving -- Manufactures -- Canoes -- Fishing nets -- Method of erecting houses designed for various purposes.. ... . . 1
CHAPTER II.
European ammunition -- Its introduction and subsequent effects -- Implements of war formerly in use -- Causes promoting native warfare -- Battle of Kororarika -- On Chieftainship -- The system of Utu or satisfaction -- Campaign of 1837 in the Bay of Islands -- Crusade in Hokianga -- Fortifications of the natives -- Aremic stices -- Preserving of human heads -- Methods in use to deify deceased chiefs -- Their lying in state -- Ceremonies -- Sacrifices of human victims -- Immolation of wives -- Industry of the people -- Calumny and feeling of disaffection towards each other......... 35
CHAPTER III.
Native presents -- Intercourse and visits of ceremony -- Surnames -- Confidence and secrecy -- Notions of theft illustrated --Native generosity -- Cunning and importunity -- Sullenness -- Obstinacy -- Feelings of shame --
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Slaves and slavery -- Taking of the "John Dunscombe" by a slave tribe -- Population -- Difference in the manners and habits of the northern and southern inhabitants -- Raupara -- Atrocities committed by European ship-masters among the natives, etc,. . ..... . 79
CHAPTER IV.
Adventures in Tolaga Bay -- Our arrival -- Anchor up the river -- Battle among rival tribes -- Jealousy of the people towards each other -- Arrival of the Chief Kani -- Presented with relics of Captain Cook -- Description of Uwoua -- Perforated valley --Cave of Tupia -- Cook's Well -- Native drawings -- Isle of Arches -- Remarkable Caverns -- A Whale Hunt -- Ingenuity of the people -- Native Artists. . . . .... . 116
CHAPTER V.
Establishment of the Church Missionary Society --The difficulties met with --Misconduct of the early members --Missionary travels --Stations of the Church Missionary Society --Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society -- Its establishment at Wangaroa -- Subsequent ejectment by hostile tribes -- Settlement at Hokianga --Improvement of the people --Visit to Hokianga --Influence of missionaries --Destruction of the "Boyd" --Causes assigned at the present day --Attack on the "Endeavour"--Capture and loss of the"Mercury. " .......... 142
CHAPTER VI.
Biographical notices of E'Ongi --His protection to the missionaries --His visit to Sidney and to England --Introduction to George the Fourth --His return --Battles
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at the Thames --East cape --North cape and Hokianga --His death --Apotheosis and exhumation --Character --Wangaroa, its desolation --Attempt of the natives at Hokianga to destroy the "Governor Macquarie" --Ship building in that river --Shipwreck of the Enterprise, Herald, New Zealander --Byron, and Lynx --Hostility of the natives --Their laws on shipwreck. ... ... ... . 178
CHAPTER VII.
Land purchased by European settlers --On the want of a local government --Introduction of commercial arts --Stability of purchases of land --Immorality and false claims of many shipmasters --European claims that are regarded as futile among the natives --Precautions necessary to be observed in purchasing land --The author's purchase of land at Taiaruru Kororarika and the district of Waitangi --Variety of claimants --Services rendered by the missionaries --Letter from some chiefs to William the Fourth --Arrival of the British resident -- Choice of a national standard --Conduct of a portion of the natives to the resident --The Baron de Thierry -- His arrival.. ... . . . . 199
CHAPTER VIII.
Religion and devout feelings of the New Zealanders -- Origin of their divinities --Their mythology --Attributes --Power and conduct in heaven and on earth -- Native conversations --Duties appertaining to a gentleman in New Zealand --Power of the "gods" over Europeans -- On priests and the sacerdotal functions attached --Their method of curing diseases --Sacrifices --Incantations --An unknown tongue --Anathemas of the people --Native interdict --Tithes, their collection.......225
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CHAPTER IX
Prohibition or tapu --Conduct of children --Phrenological notices -- Sacred animals --Ventriloquism of the priesthood --Remorse of the natives, and dubious atonement --Baptismal rites --Dreams --Native barbers --Anecdotes detailing the superstitions of the natives --On bewitching --Death of a slave --Superstitions of the evil eye --Second sight --Cemeteries- -Feelings of devotion and hypocrisy in their conduct -- Astonishment of the natives at first beholding Europeans --Traditions of the visits of former white men --Modern Centaurs --Deification of Asses --Pathology --Materia Medica of the natives --On the language of the South Sea islanders --Numerals in use by fifty different nations, conterraneous with the ancestors of the New Zealanders. ....... 252
CHAPTER X.
Decrease of the flax trade --Difficulties incident to the life of a flax collector --Capture of Thomas Ralph by hostile tribes --His sufferings --Risk of life and property among the natives --Siege and capture of a native fortification --Attempt on an encampment of Europeans and native tribes --Treachery of the warriors --Conduct of the belligerents during a siege --Cruelty of conquerors, their cowardice and cannibalism. . .....287
CHAPTER XI
On colonization -- Diminution of the New Zealanders --Various causes assigned --A government necessarily required --Intercourse of the British --Population -- Districts wholly desolated --Tribes newly discovered -- Commigration of tribes- -Fickleness of the people --Further remarks on colonization --Proposals in furtherance of that object. . . . . . 322
