[Footnote Y: Hokianga Harbour.]

[Footnote Z: Probably Muriwai, a celebrated Hokianga chief.]

[Footnote AA: Mr. S. Percy Smith, of New Plymouth, states that this word
was very common in New Zealand fifty or sixty years ago. It was applied
to servants, and was derived from the English word "cook." In Maori it
is "kuki."]

[Footnote AB: This means "plenty of food," or "sufficient"; but it is
European Maori. One Maori, speaking to another, would say "He nui te
kai."]

[Footnote AC: The best account of the operation of the law of tapu is
given by Judge Maning in "Old New Zealand."]




CHAPTER IV.


Rutherford remained at the village for about six months, together with
the others who had been taken prisoners with him and who had not been
put to death, all except one, John Watson, who, soon after their arrival
there, was carried away by a chief named Nainy.[AD] A house was assigned
for them to live in, and the natives gave them also an iron pot they had
taken from the ship, in which to cook their victuals. This they found a
very useful article. It was "tabooed," so that no slave was allowed to
eat anything cooked in it; that, we suppose, being considered the surest