The light was little better than darkness; and the part of the room in which the tohunga sat was now in perfect darkness.

Then the tohunga said to Mr. Goodwin, 'I hand my mana (power) over to you; lead your friends across.'

The tohunga stood back and said, "Have you been in the house?"

A popular and accomplished young chief had died in battle, and his friends asked the Tohunga, or medium, to call him back.