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being plundered, as the natives dare not steal from any person of that rank. “With regard to stealing from others, the custom is that if any person has stolen any thing, and kept it concealed for three days, it then becomes his own property, and the only way for the injured party to obtain satisfaction is to rob the thief in return. If the theft, how ever, be detected within three days, the thief has to return the article stolen; but, even in that case, he goes unpunished. The chiefs, also, although secure from the depredations of their inferiors, plunder one another, and this often occasions a war among them.” By music in this passage, Rutherford evi dently means instrumental music, which, it would appear, was not known in the parts of New Zealand where he resided. Other authori ties, however, speak of different wind instruments, similar to our fifes or flutes, which are elsewhere in common use. One which is frequently to be met with at the Bay of Islands consists, according to Savage, of a tube six or seven inches long, open at both extremities, and having three holes on one side, and one on the other. Another is formed of two pieces of wood bound together, so as to make a tube inflated at the middle, at which place there is a single hole. It is blown into at one ex tremity, while the other is stopped and opened, to produce different modifications of the sound.