Excerpt from The Maoris of New Zealand IT is but right to say to the reader that I spent a year in New Zealand, visiting almost all parts of the two main islands, each nearly five hundred miles in length, and had abundant opportunity, therefore, of observing the native people of whom I write, preaching to hundreds of them, visiting them in their villages (pahs) and conversing with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.