s of lines in order of incision--
1. _Kau-wae_ (13)
2. _Pere-pehi_ (7)
3. _Hupe_ (15)
4. _Ko-kiri_ (9)
5. _Koro-aha_ (10)
6. _Puta-ringa_ (12)
7. _Po-ngia-ngia_ (4) and _Tara-whakatara_ (5)
8. _Pae-pae_ (11), _Kumi-kumi_ (6), and _Wero_ (8)
9. _Rerepi_ (3)
10. _Ti-whana_ (1) and _Rawha_ (2)
11. _Ti-ti_ (14)
12. _Ipu-rangi_ (16)]

This is certainly a more perfect substitute for a written name than
that said to have been anciently in use in some parts of Europe. In
Russia, for example, it is affirmed that in old times the way in which
an individual generally gave his signature to a writing was by covering
the palm of his hand with ink, and then laying it on the paper. Balbi,
who states this, adds that the Russian language still retains an
evidence of the practice in its phrase for signing a document, which is
_roukou prilojite_, signifying, literally, to put the hand to it. It may
be remarked, however, that this is a form of expression even in our own
country; although there is certainly no trace of the singular custom in
question having ever prevailed among our ancestors. Whatever may be the
fact as to the Russian idiom, our own undoubtedly refers merely to the
application of the hand with the pen in it. Each chief appears to be
intimately acquainted with the peculiarities of his own "amoco."

There is also in the possession of the Church Missionary Society a bust
of Shungie, cut in a very hard wood by himself, with a rude iron
instrument of his own fabrication, on which the tattooing on his face is
exactly copied.

The tattooing of the young New Zealander, before he takes his rank as
one of the warriors of his tribe, is doubtless also intended to put his
manhood to the proof; and may thus be regarded as having the same object
with those ceremonies of initiation, as they have been called, which
are practised among some other savage nations on the admission of an
individual to any new degree of honour or chieftainship.

Among many nations of the American Indians, indeed, this cutting and
marking of the person is one of the principal inflictions to which the
aspirant is required to submit on such occasions. Thus, in the account
which Rochefort, in his "History of the Antilles," gives us of the
initiation of a warrior among the people of those islands, it is stated
that the father of the young man, after a very rude flagellation of his
son, used to proceed to scarify (as he expresses it) hi