The Wilmingtonian., 1824-03-25

His conversation during breakfast was
a continued boast Of the atrocities he had
committed during an excursion which he
and Krokro had made, two months before,
Ito the river Thames; and he dwelt with
marked pleasure, upon an instance OF hls
lgeneralship, when having forced small
party of his enemies into a narrow place,
whence there was no egress, he was era
Iable'l successsively to shoottwo and TWEEN
Ity of them, without their having the power
Iof making the slightest resistance. To
qualify this story, he remarked, that
though all the dead bodies were devoured
10y his tribe neither he nor his brother eat
human flesh. nor did they fight on sundays.
When ask, d why he did not try to turn
the minds of his people to agriculture. he
said it was impossible, that if you told .
New Zealander to work, he fell asleep, bu
{ you spoke of fighting, he opened his eye
as big as tea cup; that the whole bent ol
his mind was war, and that he looked upon
fighting as fun"
The beach was covered with natives
waiting the return Of the expedition, and
as the canoes approached, they waded out
to meet them, and assisted in hauling them
on shore, and in landing the prisoners and
the baggage.
The warriors were in their full dress,
their hair tied up in bunch on their heads
and ornamented with feathers, and their
faces and bodies besmeared with oil aud
red ochre They recounted to the groups
that surrounded them the different events
Of their excursion, with much gesture and
energy; while the captives sat patiently
,pon the beach awaitig the lot which was
consign them to thier respective mas
ers.- They consisted of women and chill
'lren; somr Of the latter not twn years old
land forlnrn as thler situation was, they
seemed to have paid as much attention to
the ornamenthg of their person as those
who were placed in more fortunate cir
Icumstances.
Among the women there was one WIN
excited particular interest; she was young
and handsome; and, though the other pris-
oners occasionally talked among them
selves, she sat silent and alone and appear.
led lost in afIlction. We learned that her
father, who had been chief of some CON-
sequence at the rive- Thames, was killed
by the man whose prisoner she now was
and we observed him sitting at no great
distance from her during the greater part
of the day. He was the brother of Fool
the principal person at Ransaboo and wa
a singularly fine looking youth. The ex-
traordinary scenes that we witnessed de.
tanned US in the neighborhood Of Tipp0ona
until evening. and aswe were preparing to
return to the ship, we were drawn to thai
part of the beach where the prisoners weF"
by the most dolefu cries and lanenta
was the interesting young
slave in situation that ought to have sot
softened the heart of the most unfeeling
The man who had slain her father hav
ing cut off his head, and preserved it BY
process peculiar to these islanders. tool
it out of basket where it had hitherto bee
concealed, and threw it into the lap of tn
unhappy daughter. At once she sez"'
| it with degree OF frenzy nntto be descrlb
ed, pressed its inanimate nose to her ow
and held in this position until her tear
ran over every part ofit She then lai
; it down and with bit of sharp shell, dis
figured her person in so shocking manne
that in few minutes not vestigc OF he
'former beauty remained. She first bega
by cutting her arms, then her breasts, an
lastly her face. Every incision was s
Fideep as to cause gush of blood; but sh
seemed quite insensible to pain. and per
formed the operation with heroic reso'r
tion.
He whose cruelty had caused thi
frightful exhibition, was evidently anus
ed at the horror with which we viewed i
= and layng hold of the head by the hal
(which was long and black, offered to Sc
= lii TO us for an axe, turned it in varlol
= ways to shcw it off to the best advantag
and when no purchaser was to be foun
t. placed it in basket from whence he hs
: aken it. The features were as perfet
: IS when in life, and though the daughtc
was quite grown up, the head of her faith
y ppeared to be that ofa youthiui and han
,nne man.
This touching example Of fllal piety '
earn afterwards married her fathers mu
: lprpr! New Zealand parallel to the dan
y + Ephe.ns. But what are we to expe
> aom these ruthless savages.
, .'-4t torpr's pcrjuriss they sayjore taugh'
5, Rose Vvier was brought before tie Cri
Einal Court of Paris, charged with having