269 CHAPTER XX. War dance—The Tangi—A feast—An important event—Murder by a native—Judicial proceedings—Aywarre—Native and European intercourse—How to be regulated. The arrival of a southern tribe at Kororadika afforded us an opportunity of witnessing the New Zealand war dance, or lidha, which seems to be practised on nearly the same occasions as the corrobory of the New Hollanders. On the meeting of friendly tribes, these performances are regarded as being of a complimentary character; but previously to hostile onsets they are intended to inspire the combatants with courage, and to appal the enemy. In the haka, the deepest and loudest shouts that human lungs are capable of emitting, alternate with a noise produced by forcibly impelling the breath through the compressed teeth, which is infinitely more hideous than the hiss, or whistle, of a locomotive engine ; at the same time that the features wear a most formidable expression, and the whole frame seems to be instinct with an energy of hate and evil passions truly demoniacal. In the dance of the New Hollanders there is a strange mixture of the ludicrous. In passing over the moonlit plains of Australia, I could listen to the latter without uneasiness, but the ferocious shouts and hissing of a New Zealand war dance are of