[21.2] A. S. Thomson, The Story of New Zealand (London, 1859), i. 103. Compare E. Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand (London, 1843), ii. 105: “The breaking of the tapu, if the crime does not become known, is, they believe, punished by the atua, who inflicts disease upon the criminal; if discovered, it is punished by him whom it regards, and often becomes the cause of war.”
[22.1] W. Brown, New Zealand and its Aborigines (London, 1845). pp. 12 sq.
[22.2] Old New Zealand, by a Pakeha Maori (London, 1884), p. 97.
[23.1] Rev. R. Taylor, Te Ika A Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, Second Edition (London, 1870), pp. 167, 171.
[23.2] A. S. Thomson, The Story of New Zealand (London, 1859), i. 105.
[23.3] Rev. R. Taylor, op. cit. pp. 172 sq.
[24.1] Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, Iles Marquises ou Nouk-hiva (Paris, 1843), pp. 258-260. For details of the taboo system in the Marquesas Islands, see G. H. von Langsdorff, Reise um die Welt (Francfort, 1812), i. 114-119; Le P. Matthias G * * * Lettres sur les Isles Marquises (Paris, 1843), pp. 47 sqq. This last writer, who was a missionary to the Marquesas, observes that while taboo was both a political and a religious institution, he preferred to class it under the head of religion because it rested on the authority of the gods and formed the highest sanction of the whole religious system.
[25.1] G. Turner, Samoa (London, 1884), pp. 183-184.
[26.1] G. Turner, Samoa, pp. 185-188.
[26.2] W. Mariner, An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, Second Edition (London, 1818), ii. 221.