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wood assisted in many of the articles, and wrote the Loss of the Crest; and the Rev. R. R. Bradley, Mr. F. Moore, Mr. T. Adams, Mr W. Masefield, and others, gave the information from which the other articles were prepared.

It will thus be seen that my task has been comparatively an easy one, aided as I have been by so many kind friends; and I can truly say, in conclusion—“Here is only a nosegay of cut flowers, and nothing is my own but the string that binds them.”

I am indebted to Mr. and Mrs Tikao, Wiremu, Karaurko, Hakopa te ata o Tu, Te Aika, and many other well-informed Natives, for the materials to compose this history of the Maori occupation of Banks Peninsula; and having written down the narrative from their verbal statements, I have often followed the Maori rather than the English idiom in my translation, which, however distasteful it may prove to the reader, will afford satisfactory evidence in future of the source from which my information was derived.