After Mani comes Tamatekapu carved as standing on stilts, for it is said thht he camesso New Zealand on stilts, though above him is painted canoe, named like him, Tamatekapu. Then tbere is Ko Kupe and his canoe Takitumo. These Maoris are as proud of their ancestors who came in these canoes as are those whose people came over with with William the Conqueror, or the Colonials whose fathers came in the " first four ships." I spent some tivr.e in the house of the Maniototos, hearing legends andexamining the posts carved to represent the figures of old warriors. There was something weird in the aspect of the building seen by th e flickering light of candles, something about the place stranger than tbe grotesque carvings and paintings which covered the walls; it was a glimpse of Maori history, half real, half mythical, but very vivid and very striking when seen under such circumstances. It is quite a mistake to suppose that be cause tbe Maoris allow their women to carry burdens and do menial work that they hold all the Sex in contempt. Some of their women are highly honoured and hold high places in their history, and I have heard, of one wahine, who was held so sacred that she was carried wherever she wished to go lest her feet should be polluted by touching the ground. Near the end of the Wharepuni was the figure | of a woman covered with bright robes; it i represented Manipoto Mata of Turongo,

mother of the tribe Maniototo and wife <_» Turongo. None of the women here are carved on the posts or panels <rt the house, they are separate individual carved fully out of wood, and not the on? line of figures as are the men carved on posts and pillars. Only the men form par* of the house; the women can be pushM about anywhere. There must be som. meaning in this. Besides the tlgaJm carved in wood and painted, there _«!! legends and symbols formed by plaits reeds coloured and beautifully woven. The principal of these reed pictures is T» Kuiti's Whaka kauri, or, to give i_ English title, Te Ko ti's kauri ship. 