uropean customs, he turned to him, and asked him if he
did not think that these notions of his countrymen were all gammon.
Tooi, however, replied sharply, that "it was no gammon at all"; adding,
"New Zealand man say that Mr. Marsden's _crackee crackee_ (preaching)
of a Sunday is all gammon," in indignant retaliation for the insult that
had been offered to his national customs.

But the worst part of the adventure was yet to come; for as the night
was now fast approaching, and the rain still pouring down incessantly,
it was impossible to think of returning to the ship; "and we were
therefore," continues Nicholas, "obliged to resolve upon remaining where
we were, although we had no bed to expect, nor even a comfortable floor
to stretch upon. We wrapped ourselves up in our great coats, which by
good fortune we had brought with us, and when the hour of rest came on,
laid ourselves down under the projecting roof, choosing rather to remain
here together, than to go into the house and mingle with its crowded
inmates, which we knew would be very disagreeable. Mr. Marsden, who is
blessed by nature with a strong constitution, and capable of enduring
almost any fatigue, was very soon asleep; but I, who have not been cast
in a Herculean mould, nor much accustomed to severe privations, felt all
the misery of the situation, while the cold and wet to which I was
unavoidably exposed, from the place being open, brought on a violent
rheumatic headache, that prevented me from once closing my eyes, and
kept me awake in the greatest anguish.

"Being at length driven from this wretched shelter by the rain, which
was still beating against me, I crept into the house, through the
narrow aperture that served for a door; and, stretching myself among my
rude friends, I endeavoured to get some repose; but I found this equally
impossible here as in the place I had left. The pain in my head still
continued; and those around me, being all buried in profound sleep,
played, during the whole night, such music through their noses, as
effectually prevented me from being able to join in the same chorus."

On one occasion, in the course of his second visit, Marsden spent the
night in the house of a chief, the entrance to which was of such narrow
dimensions that he could not, he says, creep in without taking his coat
off. The apartment altogether measured only about fourteen feet by ten;
and when he looked into it he found a fire blazing on the centre of the