ing contrary to the customs of their
country. When away for any length of time, I used to take Epecka along
with me, and leave Eshou at home.

"The chiefs' wives in New Zealand are never jealous of each other, but
live together in great harmony; the only distinction among them being
that the oldest is always considered the head wife. No other ceremony
takes place on the occasion of a marriage, except what I have mentioned.
Any child born of a slave woman, though the father should be a chief, is
considered a slave, like its mother.

"A woman found guilty of adultery is immediately put to death. Many of
the chiefs take wives from among their slaves; but any one else that
marries a slave woman may be robbed with impunity; whereas he who
marries a woman belonging to a chief's family is secure from being
plundered, as the natives dare not steal from any person of that rank.

"With regard to stealing from others, the custom is that if any person
has stolen anything, and kept it concealed for three days, it then
becomes his own property, and the only way for the injured party to
obtain satisfaction is to rob the thief in return. If the theft,
however, be detected within three days, the thief has to return the
article stolen; but, even in that case, he goes unpunished. The chiefs,
also, although secure from the depredations of their inferiors, plunder
one another, and this often occasions a war among them."

By music in this passage, Rutherford evidently means instrumental music,
which, it would appear, was not known in the parts of New Zealand where
he resided. Other authorities, however, speak of different
wind-instruments, similar to our fifes or flutes, which are elsewhere in
common use.

One which is frequently to be met with at the Bay of Islands consists,
according to Savage, of a tube six or seven inches long, open at both
extremities, and having three holes on one side, and one on the other.
Another is formed of two pieces of wood bound together, so as to make a
tube inflated at the middle, at which place there is a single hole. It
is blown into at one extremity, while the other is stopped and opened,
to produce different modifications of the sound.

Nicholas once saw an instrument like a flute, made of bone, very
ingeniously carved, hanging at the breast of one of the natives; and
when he asked what bone it was formed from, the possessor immediately
told him that it was the bone of a man. It was a larger bone th