But they had a right to their undivided share of the soil.

Even when a woman married into another tribe, or--in latter days--became the wife of a white, she did not forfeit her title, though sometimes such rights would be surrendered by arrangement, to save inconvenience.

Trade never entered into Maori life.

Buying and selling were unknown.

On and by the land the Maori lived, and he clung to it closely as any Irish peasant.