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the other hand, seems to have had much care bestowed on it 

 to obtain a true likeness. In this latter portrait there seems 

 to be a design in the tattooing which is fairly regular, but there is 

 no suggestion of that in the picture of Heke. Angas's picture 

 is three-quarter face, while Gilfillan's and that in Thomson's 

 work, already mentioned, are both side face, and accordngly 

 it is not easy to make a comparison save by the tattoo-marks. 

 In Angas's the nose-markings show a few irregular curves fol- 

 lowing no design at all. There is a somewhat indefinite line 

 running from about under the inside of the right eye towards 

 the point of the nose, which line is met about half-way 

 between the eye and the nostril by a curved line running 

 from the inside of the cheek-bone and parallel to the eye. 

 There also appear to be some barely defined markings on the 

 nostril, as well as several lines running away from the 

 nostril and curving round the mouth to the chin, where there 

 are a few marks evidently intended for the completion of 

 the side-face scroll. The picture generally does not coincide 

 with the other two in any particular, and consequently I am 

 inclined to think it has been drawn from memory, if not from 

 imagination. A photograph of Gilfillan's drawing was sub- 

 mitted by a friend of mine to Heke's grand-nephew, Mr. Hone 

 Heke, M.H.R., of present-day fame, who recognised it at once 

 and said that the nose, mouth, and chin tallied exactly with the 

 description that had been handed down to them of the old 

 warrior. He said that he could have recognised it at once from 

 the description his old people had given him. On the whole, 

 therefore, I am practically sure that the picture of Heke I am 

 showing may be relied upon as correct in most essential par- 

 ticulars. 



Heke's wife, the beautiful and intelligent daughter of Hongi, 

 well known by his visit to England about 1820, is often mentioned 

 in history, but so far we have had no picture of her, except the 

 one (already mentioned) in Thomson's " Story of New Zealand." 

 Gilfillan's picture coincides with this in every way, as far as com- 

 parison is possible, but it is not easy to make this, as the first- 

 mentioned is a side face and the latter nearly full face. The 

 tattooing on the chin, arrangement of the hair, and general fea- 

 tures appear to be much the same, but Gilfillan's sketch has 

 the advantage of being larger. It is said that Heke's last 

 days were embittered by the thought that he had no son to 

 inherit the magic of his name, and in the hope of obtaining 

 male issue he contracted an illicit alliance, which was highly 

 resented by his beautiful and attached wife. 



Maketu (not to be confounded with the northern Maketu) 

 was the great fighting chief of Wanganui, and as his name occurs 



