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Updated: May 14, 2025
The very names given to hills, lakes, and rivers will be witnesses in future days of the poetic instinct of the Maori perhaps the last destined to remain in his land. His commonest phraseology shows it. 'The month when the pohutu-kawa flowers'; 'the season when the kowhai is in bloom'; so he punctuates time. Many of the Maori chiefs were, and some even now are, masterly rhetoricians.
There are the starry clematis, cream-coloured or white, and the manuka, with tiny but numberless flowers. The yellow kowhai, seen on the hillsides, shows the russet tint of autumn at the height of spring-time. Yet the king of the forest flowers is, perhaps, the crimson, feathery rata. Is it a creeper, or is it a tree? Both opinions are held; both are right.
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