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dishevelled on the other parts of his head. On 
the outside it was slightly curled, and hung in 
loose ringlets. The colour was singular; at the 
roots, or close to his head, it was dark brown or 
black, six inches from his head it was of a tawny 
brown, while the extremities exhibited a light and 
in some places bright yellow. Many attempts 
had been made to persuade him to have it cut* 
but to this he would never consent. 
His only clothing was a maro , or girdle, with 
sometimes a light piece of cloth over his shoulder. 
His nails, for the sake of convenience, he had cut. 
He said but little, and though he came and looked 
at us once or twice, he seemed averse to observa¬ 
tion, and retired when I attempted to converse 
with him. He had been driven to the mountains 
in a time of war, had remained in solitude for 
years, had been at length discovered by persons 
travelling in these regions, secured, and brought 
down, where with great difficulty he had been 
induced to remain. Mr. Darling said, he was very 
quiet, but appeared uninterested in most of what 
was passing around him. 
Since Mr. Darling’s residence at Bunaau’ia, 
others have been seen in the mountains, and one 
was secured by the people of Border’s Point. 
They had gone to the mountains for the bark of 
the tiairi, which they use in dying native cloth; 
on their way they perceived a man lying on his 
side asleep, and exclaiming this is a taehae , a wild 
man, one of them went round among the bushes, 
in order to get on the opposite side, while the 
other was to advance slowly towards him : as they 
approached he awoke, and startled by their ap¬ 
pearance, rose, flinging over his shoulders his hair, 
which die natives described as reaching to his 
