The Maori formerly believed that the souls of the dead entered the other world through a cave which is situated by the seaside at the northern extremity^* of the North Island, and it was supposed that some of the priests or seers could see their spirits passing away on their journey by the shore to the cavern in the North. Many very strange and poetical ideas are associated with the procession of the spirits to the northern cavern, where they take a final departure from "day" and enter the "night," such, for instance, as the waterfalls ceasing to roar as they pass by, &c. I have often seen the long leaves of a plant which grows on the shore in the North tied in knots; these knots were made by the spirits as a memorial to their friends, and to show the path they had taken. Infidels think these knots are made by the wind whirling about the long narrow leaves, which are more like ribbons in shape than leaves.