. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. ^ repudiated English laws regarding land. OUTWORKS OF A MAORI PAH. tenure, but they started a movement for reviving their old practices ofpaganism, or, rather, setting up a new religion in place of the Christian-ity which so many of them had adopted. Several tribes joined in this movement, and the new religionspread. It was called the Pai Marire b
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. ^ repudiated English laws regarding land. OUTWORKS OF A MAORI PAH. tenure, but they started a movement for reviving their old practices ofpaganism, or, rather, setting up a new religion in place of the Christian-ity which so many of them had adopted. Several tribes joined in this movement, and the new religionspread. It was called the Pai Marire by its adherents, who are knownas Hau-Haus, or How-Hows, for the reason that they pronounce thatsound in loud tones during their ceremonial worship or when engagedin battle. Some of the tribes killed or drove out their former pastorsand Christian teachers, and all among them who refused to adopt the 240 THE BOY TKAVELLEKS IN AUSTRALASIA. new faith were relentlessly persecuted. On the other hand, many tribesand individual Maoris remained friendly, arid materially aided the Gov-ernment in prosecuting the war, The Hau-Haus were subdued in 1866, and the murderers of Yolkner and other missionaries w^ere captured and executed. Peacecame, but it was temporary; hostilities were soon r
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