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same time they are fond of applying nicknames
both to [crossed out: them] some of their own people and to Europeans.
There is certainly a European known to them for
when they are not indolent some adventerous but [indecipherable] name or appellation
indicative of a peculiarity they may [indecipherable]
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of his countenance or his doings or his [indecipherable]
accented [indecipherable] in speaking. Canibalism,
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[indecipherable] was never so general as among the New Zealanders & [indecipherable]
But I must hasten to the conclusion
lest I should weary you and [indecipherable] finish
with a description of their peculiar form
of government which I would call, [indecipherable]-
[indecipherable]-democratic, if such a term may
be used, that is to say, the elderly men
are the [indecipherable] and often hold meetings
of [indecipherable] to decide questions of dispute
or causes of war, but the younger men

same time they are fond of applying nicknames
both to [crossed out: them] some of their own people and to Europeans.
There is certainly a European known to them for
when they are not indolent some adventerous but [indecipherable] name or appellation
indicative of a peculiarity they may [indecipherable]
[indecipherable], whether in his [indecipherable] or [indecipherable]the expression [in margin: The [indecipherable] leads, the [indecipherable]]
of his countenance or his doings or his [indecipherable]
accented [indecipherable] in speaking. Canibalism,
[indecipherable] [indecipherable] [indecipherable],has sometimes occurred amongst them, [indecipherable]
[indecipherable] was never so general as among the New Zealanders & [indecipherable]
But I must hasten to the conclusion
lest I should weary you and [indecipherable] finish
with a description of their peculiar form
of government which I would call, [indecipherable]-
[indecipherable]-democratic, if such a term may
be used, that is to say, the elderly men
are the