_Hahunga_--A _hahunga_ was a funeral ceremony, at which the natives usually assembled in great numbers, and during which "baked meats" were disposed of with far less economy than Hamlet gives us to suppose was observed "in Denmark." _Kainga_--A native town, or village: their principal head-quarters. PAGE 12. _Haere mai!_ _&c._--Sufficiently explained as the native call of welcome. It is literally an invitation to advance. PAGE 15. _Tutua_--A low, worthless, and, above all, a poor, fellow--a "nobody." PAGE 16. _A pakeha tutua_--A mean, _poor_ European. _E aha te pai?_--What is the good (or use) of him? Said in contempt. PAGE 17. _Rangatira_--A chief, a gentleman, a warrior. _Rangatira pakeha_--A foreigner who is a gentleman (not a _tutua_, or nobody, as described above), a _rich_ foreigner. PAGE 18. _Taonga_--Goods; property. PAGE 21. _Mere ponamu_--A native weapon made of a rare green stone, and much valued by the natives. PAGE 22. _Taniwha_--A sea monster; more fully described further on. _Utu_--Revenge, or satisfaction; also payment. PAGE 26. _Tino tangata_--A "good man," in the language of the prize-ring; a warrior; or literally, a very, or perfect man. PAGE 36. _Taua_--A war party; or war expedition. PAGE 46. _Tena koutou_; or, _Tenara ko koutou_--The Maori form of salutation, equivalent to our "How do you do?" PAGE 49. _Na! Na! mate rawa!_--This is the battle cry by which a warrior proclaims, exultingly and tauntingly, the death of one of the enemy. PAGE 62. _Torere._--An unfathomable cave, or pit, in the rocky mountains, where the bones of the dead, after remaining a certain time in the first burying place, are removed to and thrown in, and so finally disposed of. PAGE 80. _Eaha mau_--What's that to you? PAGE 130. _Jacky Poto._--Short Jack; or Stumpy Jack. PAGE 131. _Tu ngarahu._--This is a muster, or review, made to ascertain the numbers and condition of a native force; generally made before the starting of an expedition. It is, also, often held as a military spectacle, or exhibition, of the force of a tribe when they happen to be visited by strangers of importance: the war dance is gone through on these occasions, and speeches declaratory of war, or welcome, as the case may be, made to the visitors. The "review of the Taniwha," witnessed by the Ngati Kuri, was possibly a herd of sea lions, or sea elephants; animals scarcely ever seen on the coast of that part of New Zealand, and, therefore, from their strange and hideous appearance, at once set down as an army of Taniwha. One man only was, at the defeat of the Ngati Kuri, on Motiti, rescued to tell the tale. PAGE 132. _Bare Motiti_--The island of Motiti is often called "_Motiti wahie kore,"_ as descriptive of the want of timber, or bareness of the island. A more fiercely contested battle, perhaps, was never fought than that on Motiti, in which the Ngati Kuri were destroyed. PAGE 149.