D. Vannorman Lucas 
Maoris of New Zealand 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IT is but right to say to the reader that I spent a year in New Zealand, visiting almost all parts of the two main islands, each nearly five hundred miles in length, and had abundant opportunity, therefore, of observing the native people of whom I write, preaching to hundreds of them, visiting them in their villages (pahs) and conversing with.