not even to regard themselves as in some degree under his
special protection. That personage felt the force of these
considerations so strongly that, in order to show how much he was vexed
and ashamed at his brother's conduct, he burned his own house to the
ground, and left his usual place of residence, with a determination
never to return to it so long as his brother lived.

On the morning of his departure, the high-spirited chief came to take
leave of the missionaries, when he told them that he had been on the
spot where his house stood before he burned it, to weep with his
friends, and showed them how much he had lacerated his face, arms, and
other parts of his body, in which his friends had followed his example.
His brother, too, at last came to them, quite penitent for his hasty
conduct, and offered to restore the only one of the pots which he still
had, the other having been already stolen from him by one of his
countrymen. Accordingly, he soon after sent his son with the article;
and the boy having been presented with six fish-hooks, he immediately
brought them back, with a message, that his father would take nothing
for the pot.

Such acts of retaliation as that to which the brother of Ahoudee Ogunna
here had recourse are often resorted to by the chiefs with something of
a similar design, to avenge themselves, namely, for injuries which they
conceive they have sustained, or to bring about those ulterior measures
by which they may obtain for their grievances complete atonement or
redress. In this way, many wars arise. But it is a point of honour with
a chief never to touch what belongs to those who have trusted themselves
to his friendship, and against whom he has no claim for satisfaction on
account of any old affront or outrage. To be supposed capable of doing
so would be felt by any of them as an intolerable imputation.

[Illustration: A waist-mat. _Christchurch Museum_.]

We find a striking instance of this, to pass over many others that might
be quoted, in the conduct of Tetoro, who returned home to New Zealand
from Port Jackson, along with Cruise, in the "Dromedary." It was thought
necessary, during the passage, to take from this chief a box containing
some gunpowder, which he had got with him, and to lodge it in the
magazine until the ship arrived at New Zealand. "Though every exertion,"
says Cruise, "was used, to explain the reason why he was requested to
give it up, and the strongest assurances made