est certainty.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote AO: Craik is correct in this surmise. The Maori dog, Canis
familiaris, (Variety Maorium), which is now extinct, was introduced to
New Zealand when the Maoris came at the time of their great migration,
about 500 years ago.]

[Footnote AP: The alligator is purely mythical. The only reptiles in New
Zealand are lizards, and a lizard-like animal called Tuatara. It is
about 18 inches long, and is allied to crocodiles and turtles, as well
as lizards. It is the sole representative of an ancient reptilian order
named Rhyncocephalia.]

[Footnote AQ: This is the bell-bird (Anthornis melanura).]

[Footnote AR: The tui, or parson bird (Prosthemadera novae zealandiae.)]

[Footnote AS: Large numbers of New Zealand birds unite in the spring in
singing a magnificent Song of Dawn, which generally ceases when the sun
has fairly risen, but individuals sing at intervals through the day.]

CHAPTER VII.

The details we have thus given will enable the reader to form a
conception of the state of society in the country in which Rutherford
now found himself imprisoned.

The spot in the northern island of New Zealand, in which the village lay
where his residence was eventually fixed, cannot be exactly ascertained,
from the account which he gives of his journey to it from the coast. It
is evident, however, from the narrative, that it was too far in the
interior to permit the sea to be seen from it.

"For the first year after our arrival in Aimy's village," says
Rutherford, "we spent our time chiefly in fishing and shooting; for the
chief had a capital double-barrelled fowling piece, as well as plenty of
powder and duck-shot, which he had brought from our vessel; and he used
to entrust me with the fowling-piece whenever I had a mind to go a
shooting, though he seldom accompanied me himself. We were generally
fortunate enough to bring home a good many wood-pigeons, which are very
plentiful in New Zealand.

"At last it happened that Aimy and his family went to a feast at another
village a few miles distant from ours, and my comrade and I were left
at home, with nobody but a few slaves, and the chief's mother, an old
woman, who was sick, and attended by a physician. A physician in this
country remains with his patients constantly both day and night, never
leaving them till they either recover or die, in which latter case he is
brought before a court of inquiry, composed of all the chiefs for ma