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of waving feathers. Their dark eyes, though not large, 
were often fierce and penetrating; their prominent fea¬ 
tures in general well formed 5 but their whole countenance 
was much disfigured by the practice of tatauing. Each 
chief had thus imprinted on his face, the marks and invo¬ 
lutions peculiar to his family or tribe; while the figures 
tataued on the faces of his dependants or retainers, 
though fewer in number, were the same in form as those 
by which the chief was distinguished. The accompanying 
representation of the head and face of Tlonghi, * the cele¬ 
brated New Zealand warrior, who was among the party that 
arrived this morning at the settlements, will convey no 
inaccurate idea of the effect of this singular practice. The 
tatauing of the face of a New Zealander, answering the 
The bust, from which, by the kindness of the Secretary of the Church 
Missionary Society, the drawing of the above is taken, was executed with 
great fidelity by ’lionghi during a visit to Port Jackson. 
