LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[His long figure was suspended above the dark abyss]
[“This, O Pakehas, was the legend given me by my father”]
[The light sank lower and showed more. Then to my astonished eyes was unveiled, inch by inch from the darkness, the massive granite brows of a gigantic head]
[She seated herself sideways on the hammock, while I resumed my wicker chair, and told again the story which I had narrated to her father]
[The flash came, and the sight it revealed I shall never forget. There stood Crystal in the path before me, draped in her night garments]
[Another twist and he rolled right across it, his hair and beard frizzling in the flame]
[At that instant the expected sun ray burst in, and the dazzling beauty of the Daughter of the Dawn was revealed]
[The second Maori that entered with axe upraised had his head cut clean off by the first sweeping back stroke]
[I raised the tube, took careful aim, and puffed the dart]
[He rocked it backwards and forwards until at last he raised it on its side, and there, with a firm hand, he held it poised upon the very brink]
[Kahikatea stood like a bronze statue, with one arm stretched out. In the hand of that arm was the throat of the wizard, whose body hung from it, limp and lifeless]
[With hands crossed upon her bosom, and her shrouding hair drawn over her like the curtains of the night, Hinauri lay upon the pyre]