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Updated: May 31, 2025
She is the apple of his eye and the crown of his labours. To hear Rakope sing is to believe in the Syrens; to chat with her and receive her looks and smiles, to dance with her ah! She is the pet of the tribe. Men and women, girls and boys are never weary of admiring or caressing or spoiling her.
We rushed into the bush to meet our partners, as they came up from the beach, with streaming hair and eager eyes. And presently twenty couples took the floor we Pakeha men and the dusky daughters of the land; and Old Colonial and Rakope waltzed fast and furiously at the head. I think I need hardly say that we are not æsthetic here in the bush.
If they were not good enough for Pakeha men to dance with, they had no further business there! It was time for them to be going home! Here was another nice little mess. All the Maori girls, from Rakope downwards, were as wrathful as such brown darlings could be. They would go straight home at once, they said, and never, never again come to a Pakeha spree!
O Rakope! princess of the Ngatewhatua and queen of Maori beauty! how am I to describe the opulence of your charms, your virtues, and your accomplishments? How am I to convey an idea of what you really are to the dull and prejudiced intellects of people in far-off foggy Britain?
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