| Show A utah missionary amon among da 9 the maori Colit continued hilled flou lait 11 aik the hair is ver dirk and achim dant sometimes it is closely wavid or curly but never tufted oi 01 as in tho begio race they the hair till old age when it euins grei and becomes thin but they seldom lose it and a b bild IN head is indeed a rarity they ii hive we oval heads with well sh ill sped bros brows the tile eves ees are dark sometimes vera large and beautiful the mouth is couse con so ind made more so bv b thy the tattooing tato of the lips the teeth are tine an and except imong the hot like lale tubes where bithe in the sulphur ind the teeth generally keep keel sound to an ail old age the I ige is very different aloin any othet thit I 1 know its alphabet consists ot of onla ii letters 11 t ers the are as lollops lol Jol lops loNs A e 11 hi 1 i 1 ka m mi I 1 wt ngo 0 pi tat la tat ta u 1 I and wha ind when lien tile are talking it sounds as is though it was one noid thit ill it rukes makes it vei deiy y haid giai d to distin distinguish aish one word mord rno no the dress of the old 11 aoi I 1 is ver odd the men weal nothing on the tile upper pirt ot the bode bod ind then onia a loose diess dies coining to tho tile knets made of strings atom flix 11 the dress ilat ss is otie pit itce ce covering the boda bod leaving one tile hould ti ci out till la is m id of flix thebe these dies dieses ws tie often orten the it IL mitheis of beautiful buds 1 HIP I lie eions mions M tot is clum el lint that when mien thea diSLO Mud neu ne ze il ind thea the utie ft out ti tithing hing and licht aul flit their book on this I 1 ind ind when pulled it up then bo it its wire tre on ground so ittel pulling for some time they hid irid enough I 1 lind ind to live jie on thea the love fish in fact thea the practically live on fish an kind from a ill shall hah to a whale they ilso llo cat at the new ze iland eed and let leina ns it is vt ty interesting stitt resting to look at tilt it eultia cultivating ting for in lit some cases tilt huv only onis h ive a digging stick with foot rest and a half dozen or more mora vili all move together toge thet in tit time to a thanked song the women do neu ne u 1 is as much wot k in the field aa as the tile men ind and the tile women do nearly all the fishing using the lowse jaw jav of a mimi foi a fishing hook the tile old M ions are very fond of telling stories and of their adventures and wars and I 1 have been told thit th it whenever the chief heard of a fat man in any town he would call his tube together then call for this fit nt 11 ion tort ili ind have a feast so such is the maori race we are hi h hiving i ing some very ful warm weather now but we are still buffering suffering from the war new lealind has sent over twenty five thousand thou bind men while gisborne a small where here I 1 labor his sent nearl fifteen hundred men I 1 was vas very glad to receive our p piper and li ii rn of its consolidation and read the tile home news so I 1 will enclose in sincere wishes for its success cassand and best wishes to my fi lends in carbon count from i 3 our friend J MILTON OLSEN |
