different families, The first division .fis estimated «tJQÖQ, the
second at 8600 souls..
7^ Nga*te-:Wakaua. A subdivision o f this , tribe .named
Ta-honrangi, on tbs lake of Terawera in the interior, retain
the native character and customs more than any other? people.
The number ; of Ibis tribe is 10,000* ;
8. ^fga-^te-tuaretoa, 3200 souls,. near the river Waikato, |
9. Nga-te-raukaua, in Otaki, to the north of Kapiti ;
number 600.
10. Nga-te-kuhuhunu, a numerous tribe on the,east feoast
above Waiapu. Dr, Dieffenbach thinks ife numbers not less
than; ,36,000. They are a very industrious people, rapidly
improving.
11 and 12. Rangitani and Nga-haitao:.* These, were .the
tribes visited by Captain Cook at Queen Charfette’si Sound*
They were onee very numerous, ‘but appear ; to have been
nearly exterminated in a war in_which the Nga-rte^awa. conquered
them.
In this census the author does not pretend to accuracy,
but as he visited nearly all the tribes and inquired, the
numbers of fighting men in each, he is probably not JiT.from
the truth.
It has been the opinion of some writers that the Maorians
are not all one race of .people, but a mixed nation, «enlisting
of the remains of an aboriginal population which is supposed
to have been a Papuan or Pelagian Negro tribe and a Polynesian
race who conquered them and became gradually
blended-with them by intermarriages. The proof given of
this opinion is the wide difference in physical characters
observed between different individuals in New Zealand, which,
however, does not appear to be greater than in Tahiti or
Hawaii, and doubtless depends on similar causes. The following
is the description of their physical characters by
* Nga. is said in thé vocabulary of Dieffenbach to be the article for the
plural number, and te, the definite articled Nga then appears to be a plti-
raHsing prefix analogous to the Ama of the Kafir Kosab. The tribe of Kosah
call themselves collectively or in the plural the Ama-Kosab. Perhaps Nga
is a genitive prefix, and as such Dieffenbach seems to have considered it.,
Mr. Anderson, who visited New Zealand in company with
Captain Cook.
!#$ iiftiffyêB-* do not exceed the-^-eontmon stature of Europeans,
and in-general well -made, especially about
theiTimbi!? 1 There*1 are, however, several eruptions to this,
and some are remarkable for their large benei and muscles,
but few that I ha vereen are ^corpulent.
^TheiricefonFis ofdififerent cmiBifram cktip Mach
t o ^ y v U w i s h ^ olive tinge,: and their features also are
various, some resembling Europeans. But in general their
feces* are roundy with^ Aeir^lipa fulh and also1 their noses
towards thei point; though the first are not uncommonly thick,
nor the last flat, I do not, however, raeelleet to have seen
an instance of thb true aquiline - nose amongst them. Their
teeth fire'commonly broad, white and well/set 5 and their
eyes1 large/ with a very free morion, , whiefij seems theeffect of
habit. Their hair is black, straight, and strong, commonly
cut short on the hind part, with the rest tied on the crown of
the head ; bui* some have it of a curling dispoeitionr or of a
hrdwh?colour. In the young, the feonntenanee is generally
free, or-open; hut in many of the men it has a Serious cast,
and sometimes a sullenniss or reserve, especially if they aiie
strangers» The women are in general smaller* than the men,
but have few peculiar? graces/ either in, form or features, to
distinguish' them.”*
Qaptain Fitzroy in his narrative of the surveying voyage of
the Adventure and Beagle, has thu^ described the people of
New Zealand.
« The countenances of some of the men independently of the
tattohing are handsbme according to European ideas of line
beauty. Regular, Well-defined, and high features are often seen;
but they are exceptions ratherthanthe usual characteristics.
Generally speaking, the New 'Zealander has a retreating and
narrow forehead—rather wide, however, at the base; a very
prominent brow; deeply sunk black eyes, small and ever
restless; a small nose, rather hollow, in most cases, though
* AaJerSOfa’s Observations, inserted in tbe amount of the last voyage of
Captain Coók/vol. i. p. T53.