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tribes, and particularly the Ngaitahu of Wai Pounaniu (the 

 South Island) and the Muaupoko in the North, to say nothing 

 of the jDart he played in the Wairau massacre, will ever be pro- 

 minently placed in New Zealand history ; whilst Maketu is best 

 known as the chief who stood out most resolutely against the 

 sale of the Wanganui lands to the New Zealand Company in 

 1840. 



I am sorry that much of the beauty and delicacy of line that 

 characterize the original drawings are altogether lost in my 

 photographs, owing to the work being done with lead -pencil, 

 and the paper having become stained and faded through age. 

 I have been forced, therefore, to take a series of positives and 

 negatives and so build up contrasts, which process has, how- 

 ever, given me some trouble, owing to the grain of the paper 

 becoming intensified as well as the lines required. All the 

 beautiful half-tones have been lost by this process, which was 

 necessary in order to get the lines black enough for reproduc- 

 tion ; but the outline and general drawing have not been inter- 

 fered with. 



Two pictures of Te Rauparaha have, so far as I am aware, 

 already been published, but neither, in my opinion, is as fine 

 as the one under notice. 



It may not be out of place here to give a description of Rau- 

 paraha's general appearance, culled from various contemporary 

 authorities. The Rev. Richard Taylor, who saw him a prisoner 

 on board the " Calliope," says, in "' Te Ika a Maui " (p. 54), " In 

 stature he (Rauparaha) was not above 5 ft. 6 in., but his counte- 

 nance was striking. He had a Roman or hooked nose, an eagle 

 glance which read the thoughts of others without revealing his 

 own, and a look which clearly marked his dauntless bearing." 

 He had apparently a very slight deformity, for in " Savage 

 Scenes " (vol. i, p. 35) Angas mentions that he had six toes on 

 his left foot. This, however, is apart from present interest. 

 E. J. Wakefield, in his " Adventures in New Zealand " (vol. i, 

 p. 113), about 1840, says Rauparaha "was at least sixty years 

 old, hale and stout, hair but slightly grizzled, features aquiline 

 and striking, overhanging lips and retreating forehead, eye- 

 brows wrinkled back when he lifted his deep sunken eyelids, 

 and penetrating eyes." Thomson, in " Story of New Zealand " 

 (vol. ii, p. 181), says, " In stature he was small and wiry, fore- 

 head broad and receding." Power, at page 51 of " Sketches in 

 New Zealand," thus describes Rauparaha' s general expression 

 of features : " Placid and thoughtful, but with the least excite- 

 ment they assume a malignant and wolfish expression ; his 

 small snaky' eyes gleam, and his thin lips curl down, showing 

 yellow fangs." The illustration we have in Power's book does 



