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nose with his. He was a tall, fine-looking man, about 
six feet high, and proportionably stout, his limbs firm 
and muscular, and when dressed in his war-cloak, with ali 
his implements of death appended to his person, he must 
have appeared formidable to his enemies. When ac¬ 
quainted witli our business, he prepared to accompany 
us ; but before we set out, an incident occurred that greatly 
raised my estimation of his character. In front of the 
hut sat his wife, and around her played two or three little 
children. In passing from the hut to the boat, Tetoro 
struck one of the little ones with his foot; the child 
cried, and though the chief had his mat on, and his gun 
in his hand, and was in the act of stepping into the boat 
where we were waiting for him, he no sooner heard its 
cries, than he turned back, took the child up in his arms, 
stroked its little head, dried its tears, and giving it to the 
mother hastened to join us. His conversation in the boat, 
during the remainder of the voyage, indicated no infe¬ 
riority of intellect nor deficiency of information, as far as 
he had possessed the means of obtaining it. On reaching 
Waikadie, about twenty miles from our ship, we were 
met by Waivea, Tetoro’s brother; but his relationship 
appeared to be almost all that he possessed in common 
with him, as he was both in appearance and in conduct 
entirely a savage. 
We accompanied them to the adjacent forests. The 
earth was completely covered with thick-spreading and 
forked roots, brambles, and creeping plants, overgrown 
with moss, and interwoven sc as to form a kind of 
uneven matting, which rendered travelling exceedingly 
difficult. The underwood was in many parts thick, and 
the trunks of the lofty trees rose like clusters of pillars 
supporting the canopy of interwoven boughs and verdant 
