. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . uresome, impetuous and brave. He said that by far the most sturdy, virile,impulsive and enterprising people on Oliffa in-habited the British Isles. Of course, the racehad much to do with modern movements, butthe earlier climatic conditions of the countryproduced the racial distinctions. By the rule of Nature, then, he con-tinued, Zelania, with the proper stock to beginwith, in complexion, form, feature, temperament,and mental endowments, should produce thefinest type of man and womanhood on theplanet. He compared the Maoris with the aborigi-nals of interior Austr
. Mr. Oseba's last discovery . uresome, impetuous and brave. He said that by far the most sturdy, virile,impulsive and enterprising people on Oliffa in-habited the British Isles. Of course, the racehad much to do with modern movements, butthe earlier climatic conditions of the countryproduced the racial distinctions. By the rule of Nature, then, he con-tinued, Zelania, with the proper stock to beginwith, in complexion, form, feature, temperament,and mental endowments, should produce thefinest type of man and womanhood on theplanet. He compared the Maoris with the aborigi-nals of interior Australia, and said both weremodified by their environment. Here Leo Bergin remarked that Mr. Osebawas certainly greatly taken and impressed byhis colonial experience. However, it isnot improbable that while travelling in NewZealand Mr. Oseba received sufficient courtesiesto impress him deeply with the matchless hos-pitality of the people. But, enough, says Leo Bergin, mymaster is worthy of my whole attention, andthe notes run :—. The Moa of Maoviland. The skeleton o] this particular Moa stands about12ft. high, and is a curious but substantial fact, but as the Moa, thedmornis—as the learned folks call it—permanently retired from NewZealand, possibly before the Maoris came, the plumage and plumpnessare the works of the artistic naturalist. Keaiiaeiit nature, 129 But let me return, my children, and pickup the theme of Zelania, for in her—with mytours over her romantic islands—I found balmfor all my earlier disappointments. Zelania has certainly not worried her soulin life-producing efforts. In. botany, she is notrich in species ; in mammals she is more alliedto South America, over six thousand milesdistant, than to Australia, but twelve hundredmiles, justifying my conviction that this paragonof beauty was an after-thought of the creativepower. In mammals she has but a little rat—apoor little weakling that has not yet been tamedor learned to board with the people—and twol
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