Identifier: conversionofmao00macd Title: The conversion of the Maoris Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: MacDougall, Donald, 1856?-1920 Subjects: Missions, New Zealand Maoris Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Presbyterian board of publication and Sabbath-school work Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: in front and tied behind. Only the babyslittle head peeps out. The Maoris still hold their councils, at whichboth men and women speak and indulge occasion-ally in the old savage war dance. Tourists travel-ing in New Zealand generally include in their pro-gramme a visit to the Wanganui and a paddledown the beautiful river in a Maori canoe.These canoes are from eighteen to twenty inchesin breadth and from fifteen to thirty feet long.Each one is made out of the solid trunk of a totaratree. The paddle is about four and a half feetlong and has a single blade. The Maoris respect the Europeans. An oldMaori said of birds : Ah, they are little spirits.They come to see what men are doing in thebush by day, and go back to tell God at night.To-night, they will say, We saw the Maori andthe Pakeha (white man) together in the forest.They ate of the same and drank of the same, andslept together in one blanket, and were brothers,and God will say it is good. The Maoris have keen love of justice. Once a Text Appearing After Image: A GROUP OF MAORIS. THE MAORI OF TO-DAY. 115 Maori stole a bag of sugar from a store, and re-ceived a months imprisonment for his crime. Achief made him pay the value of the sugar to thestorekeeper, pay utu to some person, and pay ututo the chiefs of respective tribes to compensatethem for loss of credit the community had sus-tained through his offense. Although one meets here and there with thegrotesquely-carved ^Noahs Ark Maori churchwhile traveling over the islands, the majority ofthe natives attend the various denominationalchurches—the Church of England, MethodistChurch, and the Roman Catholic. They are goodlisteners. They sing lustily and join in responsesfervidly, laugh and weep vociferously. Theygrind their teeth, stamp their feet, wave their armsand rage when the treachery of Judas is related.They look upon money collection in church as im-portant, but they do not give more than a penny.The warden has to make change while passingthe plate. If one has no penny he makes believ Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

Identifier: conversionofmao00macd Title: The conversion of the Maoris Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: MacDougall, Donald, 1856?-1920 Subjects: Missions, New Zealand Maoris Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Presbyterian board of publication and Sabbath-school work Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: in front and tied behind. Only the babyslittle head peeps out. The Maoris still hold their councils, at whichboth men and women speak and indulge occasion-ally in the old savage war dance. Tourists travel-ing in New Zealand generally include in their pro-gramme a visit to the Wanganui and a paddledown the beautiful river in a Maori canoe.These canoes are from eighteen to twenty inchesin breadth and from fifteen to thirty feet long.Each one is made out of the solid trunk of a totaratree. The paddle is about four and a half feetlong and has a single blade. The Maoris respect the Europeans. An oldMaori said of birds : Ah, they are little spirits.They come to see what men are doing in thebush by day, and go back to tell God at night.To-night, they will say, We saw the Maori andthe Pakeha (white man) together in the forest.They ate of the same and drank of the same, andslept together in one blanket, and were brothers,and God will say it is good. The Maoris have keen love of justice. Once a Text Appearing After Image: A GROUP OF MAORIS. THE MAORI OF TO-DAY. 115 Maori stole a bag of sugar from a store, and re-ceived a months imprisonment for his crime. Achief made him pay the value of the sugar to thestorekeeper, pay utu to some person, and pay ututo the chiefs of respective tribes to compensatethem for loss of credit the community had sus-tained through his offense. Although one meets here and there with thegrotesquely-carved ^Noahs Ark Maori churchwhile traveling over the islands, the majority ofthe natives attend the various denominationalchurches—the Church of England, MethodistChurch, and the Roman Catholic. They are goodlisteners. They sing lustily and join in responsesfervidly, laugh and weep vociferously. Theygrind their teeth, stamp their feet, wave their armsand rage when the treachery of Judas is related.They look upon money collection in church as im-portant, but they do not give more than a penny.The warden has to make change while passingthe plate. If one has no penny he makes believ Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.