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sures in regard to their preservation and improve- 

 ment, and, above all, that forbearance on the part 

 of the colonists, without which no efforts to pre- 

 serve the natives and to ameliorate their condition 

 can be successful. 



It appears that the native population of New 

 Zealand was originally composed of two different 

 races of the human family, which have retained 

 some of their characteristic features, although in 

 the course of time they have in all other respects 

 become mixed, and a number of intermediate va- 

 rieties have thence resulted. They call themselves 

 Maori, which means indigenous, aboriginal; or 

 Tan gat a maori, indigenous men ; in opposition to 

 Pakea, which means a stranger, or Pakea mango 

 mango y a very black stranger, a negro. 



The men belonging to the first of these races, 

 which is by far the most numerous, are generally 

 tall, of muscular and well-proportioned frame, very 

 rarely inclining to embonpoint, but varying in size 

 as much as Europeans do. Their cranium often 

 approaches in shape the best and most intellectual 

 European heads. In general, however, it may be 

 said to be of longer dimensions from the forehead 

 to the occiput ; the forehead itself is high, but not 

 very full in the temporal regions ; the coronal ridge 

 is ample, no coronal suture exists ; the occiput is 

 well developed, showing a great amount of animal 

 propensities not, however, in undue preponderance 

 over the intellectual. In a skull which I possess of 



