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who have six or more toes or fingers on a foot or 

 hand ; the well-known chief Rauparaha, in Kapiti, 

 is distinguished by this peculiarity : in one case 

 several members of a family were thus formed. I 

 never observed any case of mental disease, if I except 

 that of a young man in Kapiti, who appeared to have 

 been born idiotic. 



