So says the proverb—“_Nga tamariki tane ka whai ki te ure tu, nga tamariki wahine ka whai ki te u-kai-po._” “Male children follow after the male, female children follow after the breast fed on at night.” 2. If a female marries a man of another tribe—_he tangata ke_—she forfeits all right to land in her mother’s tribe. So says the proverb—“_Haere atu te wahine, haere marokore._” “The woman goes, and goes without her smock.” 3. The children of a female married to a man of a stranger tribe have no right of succession to land in their mother’s tribe. So says the proverb—“_He iramutu tu ke mai i tarawahi awa_⁶⁵”—“A nephew or niece standing apart on the other side of the river.” ⁶⁵ This proverb was also applied in case of a war as a sufficient reason for not sparing such relation. But there is a provision which can be applied to modify this last rule. If the brothers of the woman ask for one or more of the children—their _iramutu_—to be given up to their care, and they are thus, as it were, adopted by their uncles, they become reinstated in the tribal rights which their mother had forfeited. A NEW ZEALANDER’S WILL. Under this title in a former publication⁶⁶ I gave a literal translation of a written communication which I received from the celebrated Wi Tamihana Tarapipipi of Matamata, as follows:— ⁶⁶ Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders. Edit. 2, p. 271. “A certain man had a male child born to him, then another male child, and then another male child. He also had daughters. At last the father of this family being at the point of death, the sons and daughters and all the relations assembled to hear his last words, and to see him die. And the sons said to their father: ‘Let thy mouth speak, O father, that we may hear your will; for you have not long to live.’ Then the old man turned towards his younger brothers, and spoke thus:— ‘Hereafter, O my brothers, be kind to my children. My cultivations are for my sons. Such and such a piece of land is for such and such a nephew. My eel-weirs, my potato gardens, my potatoes, my pigs, my male slaves, and my female slaves are for my sons only. My wives are for my younger brother.’ Such is the disposition of a man’s property; it relates only to his male children.” From this it appears that the head of a family had a recognized right to dispose of his property among his male offspring and kinsmen, and that his will expressed shortly before his death in the presence of his family assembled for that purpose possessed all the solemnity of a legal document. RAHI.