Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders (Volume 1); With Notes Corroborative of Their Habits, Usages, Etc., and Remarks to Intending Emigrants, with Numerous Cuts Drawn on Wood (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1840. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. TITLES OF THE ARISTOCRACY. DELIGHT IN A MULTITUDE OF NAMES.-- ACCIDENTAL CIRCUMSTANCES TENDING TO ESTABLISH A DESIGNATION FOR LIFE.--SURNAMES. A METRICAL ANSWER.--DERIVATIONS.--SINGULAR CAUSE FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE LANGUAGE.--ORTHOGRAPHICAL PRONUNCIATION OF THE NATIVES. COMPOUNDED NAMES. ON THE PJRJBMOMEN, COGNOMEN AND PATRONYMIC. MISUSE OF SAINTED NAMBS.--PRECAUTIONS OF THE NATIVES IN REFUSING TO GIVE THEIR NAMES.--RECIPROCAL CHANGES OF APPELLATIONS.--ON TRIBES. NATIVE, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH.--NAME OF A DEFEATED TRIBE. --' GENERIC NAMBS. -- LIST OP MALE AND FEMALE NAMES. ALSO OF RIVERS, MOUNTAINS. VILLAGES, AND OF TRIBES. HOW FOUNDED. THE MUSQUETEERS. -- THE CANNIBAL TRIBE. -- ARE BROKEN BY E'ONGI. THEIR DESOLATION AND BARBABOUS CONDUCT. UNIVEBSAL TASTE OF ADDING SURNAMES. MR. CAT LIN'S CORROBORATIVE TESTIMONY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA.--OBSCENE APPELLATIONS.--ON PRESERVING THE NATIONAL APPELLATIONS TO PLACES. The titles of the people are few, yet pertinaciously adhered to; the pride of a New Zealander on this score, being comparable to that felt by a country Spanish hidalgo. Society is divided into four classes, the Rangatira-nui, or governor of a tribe being the highest rank under the patriarchal administration, Rangatira alone, being the cognomen of the primitive nobles holding the secondary rank, their people, freemen, are only known as nd tangdta or men, and the slaves as nd taurekdrekd. The eldest son of the principal chief is called the Kai Rangatira, or heir apparent, and the national nomenclature is that of nd tangdta-mdori or native people, the prefix nd being the plural, and the word mdort representing the term of native or indigenous. The natives take much pride to themselves, in being designated by a catalogue of names. S...