John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . e male sex. The men are nearly all of the same type—tall, well-built, with a look of firmness and kindness in the is easy to see you are in presence of a warlike butchivalrous race. ... The women are of many types, I have seen, amongthe female Maoris, Jewesses, Spaniards, and Italians,negresses, and even the Australian type. The skin is-of a deep bronze, the mouth enormous, the hair short,thick, and badly kept. The figure is of a heavy build,with large haunches and hanging breast
John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . e male sex. The men are nearly all of the same type—tall, well-built, with a look of firmness and kindness in the is easy to see you are in presence of a warlike butchivalrous race. ... The women are of many types, I have seen, amongthe female Maoris, Jewesses, Spaniards, and Italians,negresses, and even the Australian type. The skin is-of a deep bronze, the mouth enormous, the hair short,thick, and badly kept. The figure is of a heavy build,with large haunches and hanging breasts. When theyare married, their lips and chin are tattooed. Nothing is more comical than to see, in certain towns,these strange forms decked out in great loose gowns ofwhite or pink, humped by tournures and crinolines(over and above those with which nature has amplyprovided them), and great felt hats stuck with feathers,and, to complete the picture, the mouth adorned with a 227 228 JOHN BULL & CO. short pipe, a regular navvys comforter. These gro-tesque creatures have a coquetry of their own. Some. PAIKIA.[Fro7n a Photograph by FoY Brothers, Thames, Neza Zealand.] of them go so far as to have their backs tattooed, so asto be fascinating in the water when they swim ; and Ione day had as much as I could do to persuade a Ma- JOHN BULL & CO. 229 ori belle that on this subject her word was quite suffi-cient for me. With the men, tattooing has long been out of fashion,but among the older Maoris I saw marvelous exam-ples of the practice. The forehead, nose, and cheeksare covered with a freehand design in dark blue, mak-ing the face repulsive but picturesque.
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