i>, and in Europe
"Asparagus of the Cossacks." Other names for it are
<i>Bulrush</i>, <i>Cat's Tail</i>, <i>Reed Mace</i>, and
<i>Cooper's Flag</i>.

1827. Augustus Earle, `Narrative of Nine Months' Residence in
New Zealand,' `New Zealand Reader,' p. 67:

"Another party was collecting rushes, which grow plentifully in
the neighbourhood, and are called raupo."

1833. Henry Williams's Diary, `Carleton's Life,' p. 151:

"The Europeans were near us in a raupo whare [rush-house]."

1835. W. Yate, `Account of New Zealand,' p. 205:

"To engage the natives to build raupo, that is, rush-houses."

1842. W. R. Wade, `A Journey in the North Island of New
Zealand,' `New Zealand Reader,' p. 122:

"The raupo, the reed-mace of New Zealand, always grows in
swampy ground. The leaves or blades when full grown are cut
and laid out to dry, forming the common building material with
which most native houses are constructed."

1843. `An Ordinance for imposing a tax on Raupo Houses,
Session II. No. xvii. of the former Legislative Council of
New Zealand':

[From A. Domett's collection of Ordinances, 1850.]

"Section 2. . . . there shall be levied in respect of every
building constructed wholly or in part of <i>raupo, nikau</i>,
<i>toitoi, wiwi, kakaho</i>, straw or thatch of any
description [ . . . L20]."

1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' c. i.
p. 380:

"These [the walls], nine feet high and six inches thick, were
composed of neatly packed bunches of raupo, or bulrushes, lined
inside with the glazed reeds of the tohe-tohe, and outside with
the wiwi or fine grass."

1860. R. Donaldson, `Bush Lays,' p. 5:

"Entangled in a foul morass,
A raupo swamp, one name we know."

1864. F. E. Maning (Pakeha Maori), `The War in the North,'
p. 16:

"Before a war or any other important matter, the natives used
to have recourse to divination by means of little miniature
darts made of rushes or reeds, or often of the leaf of the
cooper's flag (raupo)."

1867. F. Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' p. 308:

"The favourite material of the Maoris for building purposes
is Raupo (<i>Typha</i>), a kind of flag or bulrush, which
grows in great abundance in swampy places."

1877. Anon., `Colonial Experiences, or Incidents of
Thirty-Four Years in New Zealand,' p. 10:

"It was thatched with raupo or native bulrush, and had sides
and interior partitions of the same material."

<hw>Raven</hw>, <i>n</i>. English bird-