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THE MITRE PEAK
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long a story to be included in this. And when we got back to Sutherland’s I showed him the little book in which I had written all the fragments he had quoted, and he said,

“You must appreciate their beauty, then, little friend! But those are only scraps, Mary; as soon as they are published you shall have the whole, and then you will be able to see how exquisitely my Dreamer dreams and paints in words the country of his birth.”

A wooden Māori carving of a person holding two smaller people, who appear to be holding each other.

Tiki, a Maori charm.