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the phormium, the toes are less confined than with 

 us, and they have more command over the muscles. 

 Their features are prominent, but regular ; the ex- 

 pression of the face quiet and composed, showing 

 great self-command, and this is heightened by the 

 tattooing, which prevents the face from assuming 

 the furrows of passion or the wrinkles of age ; their 

 physiognomy bears no signs of ferocity, but is easy, 

 open, and pleasing. Some of the natives have hair 

 of a reddish or auburn colour, and a very light-co- 

 loured skin. I may also mention here that I have 

 seen a perfect xanthous variety in a woman, who 

 had flaxen hair, white skin, and blue eyes ; not per- 

 haps a half-caste, but a morbid variety, as was proved 

 by the extreme sensibility of her visual organs, her 

 rather pallid appearance, and her age ; on her cheeks 

 the skin was rather rough and freckled. The na- 

 tives who live near the hot sulphurous waters on 

 the borders of the Lake of Roturua have the enamel 

 of their teeth, especially of the front teeth, yellow, 

 although this does not impair their soundness, and is 

 the effect, probably, of the corroding qualities of the 

 thermal waters. In a skull which I possess of a chief 

 of that tribe, the last incisor and the canine tooth 

 show, where they join together, a semilunar incision. 

 This is the case in both the upper and lower maxillae, 

 but more so in the upper. It is perhaps made with 

 an instrument, or is occasioned by the constant use 

 of the pipe. 



The second race has undoubtedly a different ori- 



