Also of their quaint notions about the white man's queer civilization, and their equally quaint comments upon it.

One of them thought the missionary had got everything wrong end first and upside down.

"Why, he wants us to stop worshiping and supplicating the evil gods, and go to worshiping and supplicating the Good One! There is no sense in that.

A good god is not going to do us any harm." The Maoris had the tabu; and had it on a Polynesian scale of comprehensiveness and elaboration.

Some of its features could have been importations from India and Judea.