way of preventing it from being stolen.

At last they set out in company with Aimy and another chief, to pursue
their way further into the interior; one of them, however, whose name is
not given, remaining with Rangadi.

Having come to another village, the chief of which was called Plama,[AE]
another of them, whose name was John Smith, was left with him.

The number of those preserved alive, it will be recollected, was six; so
that, three of them having been disposed of in the manner that has been
stated, there were now, including Rutherford, as many more remaining
together.

When they had travelled about twelve miles further, they stopped at a
third village, and there they remained two days.

"We were treated very kindly," says Rutherford, "at this village by the
natives. The chief, whose name was Ewanna,[AF] made us a present of a
large pig, which we killed after our own country fashion, not a little
to the surprise of the New Zealanders. I observed many of the children
catch the flowing blood in their hands, and drink it with the greatest
eagerness. Their own method of killing a pig is generally by drowning,
in order that they may not lose the blood. The natives then singed off
the hair for us, by holding the animal over a fire, and also gutted it,
desiring nothing but the entrails for their trouble. We cooked it in our
iron pot, which the slaves who followed us had brought along with the
rest of the luggage belonging to our party.

"No person was allowed to take any part of the pig unless he received