. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. ly few years it iscertain that not a Maori of pure blood willbe found in the islands; and before a cen-tury has elapsed, even the characteris-tic tattoo will be a remembrance of thepast, of which the only memorials will bethe dried heads that have been preservedin European museums. It is pitiful thatsuch a race should be
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. ly few years it iscertain that not a Maori of pure blood willbe found in the islands; and before a cen-tury has elapsed, even the characteris-tic tattoo will be a remembrance of thepast, of which the only memorials will bethe dried heads that have been preservedin European museums. It is pitiful thatsuch a race should be passing away; butits decadence cannot be arrested, and ina short time the Maories will be as com-pletely extinct as the people of the stoneage, leaving nothing but their manufacturesas memorials of their existence. Such me-morials, therefore, ought to be sedulouslypreserved. Every piece of genuine nativecarving that can be found in New Zealandought to be secured and brought to Eng-land, where it can be preserved for futureages, and, with the isolated sj^ecimens thatare scattered in private houses throughoutthe country, ought to be gathered togetherin some central museum, where they canbe accessible to all who interest them-selves in the grand science of (1. MAOKI PADDLES (See page 854.) COMMON STONE ADZE. (See page 880.) (4.) TOKO-TOKO. (See page 880.) (881) CHAPTER LXXXVIIX. NEW CALEDONIA. POSITION AND DIMENSIONS OF NEW CALEDONIA — APPEARANCE AND DRESS OF THE NATIVES — THEDANCINO MASK — NATIVE ARCHITECTURE — SMOKE AND MOSQUITOES — WARFARE — CURIOUSWEAPONS — THE SLING AND THE SPEAR — MODE OF THROWING THE SPEAR — THE OUNEP, OR AMENTUM OF THE ANCIENTS — SHAPE OF THE CLUB — OBJECTS OF WAR — CANNIBALISM —THE KNIFE AND FORK — DIET AND COOKERY IN GENERAL — THE NOUGUI SPIDER — MODE OFDRINKING — CHARACTER OF THE NEW CALEDONIANS — AN INGENIOUS THEFT — THE KATA — THEISLE OF PINES. AND ITS INHABITANTS. East of Australia is a tolerabl
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