Complex sentence: The last person to ever see one was a maori chief of the Urewera tribe who caught one living under the bark of a dead tree in 1870; he described it as being "brownish with reddish stripes and as thick as a man's wrist".
Split into simpler sentences: The last person to ever see one was a māori chief of the Urewera tribe who caught one living under the bark of a dead tree in 1870. He described it as being "brownish with reddish stripes and as thick as a man's wrist".