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Nausicaa (p. 203).—Nausicaa was the daughter of Alcinous, King of Phæacia, an island in the Ionian Sea. She first met Ulysses, who had been shipwrecked on the shores of the island, while she was busy with her maidens washing her father’s garments by the sea.—Bridegroom, according to Aristotle this was Tolemachus, son of Ulysses.
The Burial of Sir John McKenzie (p. 225).—John McKenzie, a typical Highland shepherd who emigrated to Otago in 1860, was for some years Minister of Lands, and is chiefly remembered for his lands for settlement policy, referred to in the poem.
William Rolleston (p. 227).—William Rolleston, born in 1831, was a member of a Commission which framed the educational system of Canterbury. Afterwards he was for eight years Superintendent of that province, and he also held various portfolios in different colonial governments.

ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF MAORI WORDS.

Every vowel in Maori words is pronounced separately (whare, Petone), and receives the same quality as in Italian. The stress usually falls on the first and alternate syllables. (But Rauparaha is accented on the first and final syllables.) Ng is nasal. Final vowels are sometimes voiceless.

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