and eloquent accounts of the injury received were accompanied by much fierce gesticulation. Such old-time songs as the following were often sung by the first speaker of the party as disclosing the purport of their visit:— Taku wahine ra Ka riro koe i Te Tini o Te Manahua Homai he turuturu, homai he taketake Hei whakautu mo te manu nunui a Tane Ka whiwhi au ki te tika—i. Some time before the fight at Māna-teepa one Te Hau, one of Te Ika-poto's four wives, committed adultery at Te Whaiti. The people of that place knew that trouble would ensue for Te Ika was a person of importance among Tuhoe, so they proceeded to build a fighting pa (fort) at Ahi-kereru. Te Ika-poto raised a taua, who were armed with guns, and marched on Te Whaiti, where they attacked the pa, and after a good deal of firing on both sides the attacking force killed Te Rua-Whakatara of the garrison, after which peace was made. In a case of adultery which occurred here the wife was the erring party. The goods, greenstone ornaments, &c., handed over by her relatives as satisfaction to her husband were not retained by him, but by an aunt of his. “Koi nei hai wahine mo te tane, ko aua taonga” (“The goods were then a wife for the husband”). If a married man committed adultery with a married woman in former times both of them were subjected to a taua, and they and their relatives of the family group had to give compensation. Also the husband of the second woman would have the right to taua the first man. Or if a married man had connection with a single girl both he and his paramour would be subject to a taua, and also if a married woman committed adultery with a single man both suffered. In late times these rules have been somewhat modified. In some cases a man, if of high birth, would repudiate his adulterous wife, very probably at the instance of his friends, who would say, “Discard that woman and marry So-and-so.” Adulterous women were sometimes slain by the enraged husband, and would very likely be cooked and eaten, if not closely, related, but a member of another clan. Since the introduction of Christianity another custom has arisen, said to have been obtained from the Scriptures. An adulterous wife is isolated, taken away from the village and camped in a tent or some deserted hut away from any inhabited place. An elderly person accompanies and takes charge of her. After a certain number of days she is allowed to return to the village. Her paramour is sometimes treated in a similar manner. I noted one case here in which a