oi Jtnmco:0 $eron, the Eoologist. 



OME years ago, a missionary party dined 

 one day at our house. Among the guests 

 were two natives of the South Seas, who 

 had accompanied their teacher on a voy- 

 age to England, and who were then itinerating with 

 him through the provinces. The weather was 

 very cold, for it was early spring, and the poor 

 natives of those warm regions suffered from the 

 chills of our ungenial climate. During the dinner 

 I watched with curiosity the faces of these re- 

 formed savages, whose huge mouths and dazzling 

 teeth reminded me of the terrible fact that they 

 had been originally cannibals ; and it was with some 

 alarm I saw them introduced by their guardian 

 to the drawing-room, and left alone with my 

 mother and myself till the gentlemen should have 

 finished their after-dinner business. The first act 

 of the chief, who was evidently a gentleman by 

 nature, was to wave his hand towards the fire, 



