Maori Warrior's Book of Dreams Nearly a hundred years ago, a Maori named Aporo drew in a notebook the visions which he saw in his dreams. He was a warrior fighting for the Maori King against the Pakehas and the Pakeha Queen. On 23 January 1867, while he was hiding underneath a waterfall at Poripori, he was shot by Major Gilbert Mair, a famous Pakeha soldier. Nothing else is known about his life. But his dream drawings were saved by the man who killed him, and they are now in the Turnbull Library in Wellington. So far as we know, this is the first time that any of them have been published. We show only a few drawings here; there are many more of them in this old notebook, the pages of which are fragile now with age. It is a kind of diary, a record of the dreams and nightmares which came to him as he lay asleep, probably in a shelter deep in the bush, one of a band of guerrillas fighting a bitter, hopeless battle against the men who wanted their land. This is what is written on the first of these pages: I slept because of my sadness, and in my sleep I saw this sign above me: a reddish cloud, and a flock of little birds, and a big bird in the midst of them, flying in the direction of the great cloud. They settle on the cloud with their big friend. I awoke.