I belong to both parties, and I don't care a straw which wins; but I am sure we shall have fighting. Men _must_ fight; or else what are they made for? Twenty years ago, when I heard military men talking of "marching through New Zealand with fifty men," I was called a fool because I said they could not do it with five hundred. Now I am also thought foolish by civilians, because I say we can conquer New Zealand with our present available means, if we set the right way about it (which we won't). So hurrah again for the Maori! We shall drive the pakeha into the sea, and send the Law after them! If we can do it, we are right; and if the pakeha beat us, _they_ will be right too. God save the Queen! So now, my Maori tribe, and also my pakeha countrymen, I shall conclude this book with good advice; and be sure you take notice: it is given to both parties. It is a sentence from the last speech of old "Lizard Skin." It is to you both. "Be brave, that you may live." VERBUM SAPIENTI. GLOSSARY. _A pakeha tutua_--A mean, _poor_ European.--p. 18. _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.--p. 153. _E aha te pai?_--What is the good (or use) of him? Said in contempt.--p. 18. _Haere mai! &c._--Sufficiently explained as the native call of welcome. It is literally an invitation to advance.--p. 14. _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."--p. 13. _Jacky-poto_--Short Jack; or stumpy Jack.--p. 152. _Kainga_--A native town, or village: their principal headquarters.--p. 13. _Kia kotahi ki te ao! Kia kotahi ki te po!_--A close translation would not give the meaning to the English reader. By these words the dying person is conjured to cling to life, but as they are never spoken until the person to whom they are addressed is actually expiring, they seemed to me to contain a horrid mockery, though to the native they no doubt appear the promptings of an affectionate and anxious solicitude. They are also supposed to contain a certain mystical meaning.--p. 200.