🌲 Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, sentence 9

Here I desire to record also, with feelings of gratitude, the name of the principal narrator of the legends, Mr. Hone Taare Tikao, of Rapaki, a Ngai-Tahu gentleman whose uncommonly retentive memory is a storehouse of information on local history and who blends in himself the gifts of the folk-lorist and the genealogist.

Who acts: I, retentive memory, storehouse · What happens: desire, record, be, blend, name, gift · To what, where: storehouse, gifts, principal narrator, folk lorist

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