[Footnote V: "Account of New Zealand."]

[Footnote W: Probably Rakau.]

[Footnote X: This is the name given in the deed of sale, dated February
24th, 1815, but the correct spelling is probably "Kuna" or "Kena."]

[Footnote Y: Hokianga Harbour.]

[Footnote Z: Probably Muriwai, a celebrated Hokianga chief.]

[Footnote AA: Mr. S. Percy Smith, of New Plymouth, states that this word
was very common in New Zealand fifty or sixty years ago. It was applied
to servants, and was derived from the English word "cook." In Maori it
is "kuki."]

[Footnote AB: This means "plenty of food," or "sufficient"; but it is
European Maori. One Maori, speaking to another, would say "He nui te
kai."]

[Footnote AC: The best account of the operation of the law of tapu is
given by Judge Maning in "Old New Zealand."]

CHAPTER IV.

Rutherford remained at the village for about six months, together with
the others who had been taken prisoners with him and who had not been
put to death, all except one, John Watson, who, soon after their arrival
there, was carried away by a chief named Nainy.[AD] A house was assigned
for them to live in, and the natives gave them also an iron pot they had
taken from the ship, in which to cook their victuals. This they found a
very useful article. It was "tabooed," so that no slave was allowed to
eat anything cooked in it; that, we suppose, being considered the surest
way of preventing it from being stolen.

At last they set out in company with Aimy and another chief, to pursue
their way further into the interior; one of them, however, whose name is
not given, remaining with Rangadi.

Having come to another village, the chief of which was called Plama,[AE]
another of them, whose name was John Smith, was left with him.

The number of those preserved alive, it will be recollected, was six; so
that, three of them having been disposed of in the manner that has been
stated, there were now, including Rutherford, as many more remaining
together.

When they had travelled about twelve miles further, they stopped at a
third village, and there they remained two days.

"We were treated very kindly," says Rutherford, "at this village by the
natives. The chief, whose name was Ewanna,[AF] made us a present of a
large pig, which we killed after our own country fashion, not a little
to the surprise of the New Zealanders. I observed many of the children
catch the flowing blood in their hands, and drink it with the