Crossword-Solution: KATIPO 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Another rarity which had been brought under his notice was a venomous spider, known among the Maoris as a "katipo;" its bite was asserted to be very often fatal.

Deep and dire are the maledictions heaved at the unhappy Shark, and in which his companions, Rimu and Toto, Wolf and Katipo, have unjustly to share.

The pig is screaming like a hundred railway engines; kicking, plunging, stamping, tearing, twisting from side to side in a vain endeavour to rid herself of us, or to get at us with those formidable jaws; shaking Katipo--a big mastiff-like cur--about, as a cat would shake a mouse.

Hurrah! On to her at once! Sit on her belly and keep her down! Never mind the kicking legs in the air! Get a hand between the struggling forelegs, gently, along the neck! Now then, out with the ready sheath-knife, and dig it in! There! Right to the heart, till the blood spurts out over us! Hurrah! Good! There's another mother of a family the less! And now we may take breath for a minute or two, praise old Katipo, and cut off the pig's ears as a trophy.

Then Katipo discovers a small family of pigs comfortably stowed away among the dense vegetation of a little marshy hollow.