Chapter I: Introduction

WANAKI’S FOREWORD I. A SPLENDID MADMAN II. THE AGED CHIEF III. A SECRET OF ANCIENT NIGHT IV. THE HAUNTED REGION V. ON THE GREAT TAPU VI. NGARAKI--CHIEF AND TOHUNGA VII. THE INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE OF HIA VIII. THE VILE TOHUNGAS OF THE PIT IX. NGARAKI THE FIERCE X. KAHIKATEA AND HIS STRANGE BELIEF XI. THE SEARCH FOR ‘THE LITTLE MAIDEN’ XII. THE MAN-WHO-HAD-FORGOTTEN XIII. CRYSTAL GREY XIV. THE CHIEF OF THE VILE TOHUNGAS XV. THE DARKNESS PUTS FORTH A TENTACLE XVI. WHICH REVEALS THE WAY OF THE SORCERER XVII. LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT XVIII. TE MAKAWAWA IS STARTLED XIX. THE DREAD MAKUTU XX. CRYSTAL LOVES KAHIKATEA, WHO LOVES HINAURI XXI. CRYSTAL AND HINAURI MEET XXII. THE TALISMAN XXIII. THE DAUGHTER OF THE DAWN XXIV. ZUN THE TERRIBLE XXV. THE SERVANT OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF HUO XXVI. NGARAKI’S HOUR OF TRIUMPH XXVII. THE GIANTS CLOSE THEIR TEMPLE XXVIII. FAREWELL CONCLUSION ENDNOTES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

His long figure was suspended above the dark abyss (img094.jpg)

“This, O Pakehas, was the legend given me by my father” (img052.jpg)

The light sank lower and showed more. Then to my astonished eyes was unveiled, inch by inch from the darkness, the massive granite brows of a gigantic head (img107.jpg)

She seated herself sideways on the hammock, while I resumed my wicker chair, and told again the story which I had narrated to her father (img165.jpg)

The flash came, and the sight it revealed I shall never forget. There stood Crystal in the path before me, draped in her night garments (img184.jpg)

Another twist and he rolled right across it, his hair and beard frizzling in the flame (img221.jpg)

At that instant the expected sun ray burst in, and the dazzling beauty of the Daughter of the Dawn was revealed (img262.jpg)

The second Maori that entered with axe upraised had his head cut clean off by the first sweeping back stroke (img281.jpg)

I raised the tube, took careful aim, and puffed the dart (img286.jpg)

He rocked it backwards and forwards until at last he raised it on its side, and there, with a firm hand, he held it poised upon the very brink (img301.jpg)

Kahikatea stood like a bronze statue, with one arm stretched out. In the hand of that arm was the throat of the wizard, whose body hung from it, limp and lifeless (img321.jpg)

With hands crossed upon her bosom, and her shrouding hair drawn over her like the curtains of the night, Hinauri lay upon the pyre (img326.jpg)