The daughter of the dawn

by William Reginald Hodder

^[28] This letter, with its enclosure from Miriam Grey to Kahikatea, reached me just as the task of editing this work was finished.—Editor.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

The Hodder & Stoughton edition (London, n.d.) was consulted for most of the changes listed below.

Minor spelling variances (e.g. lovelight/love-light, nut-trees/nut trees, etc.), the inconsistent italicization of foreign words, and redundant footnotes (matakite, utu) have been preserved.

Plain text edition only: note markers are given in [square] brackets.

Alterations to the text:

Convert footnotes to endnotes.

Punctuation: quotation mark pairings/nestings, missing commas, etc.

[Chapter IV]

Change (“Tanawha lives there,” he said, “it is tapu. The Maori) to Taniwha.