[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]

INTRODUCTION.