Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-09-11


|fens'fa1 Gardens and Magnificent Cities.
fCopyright, Louis Klopsch, 1s94.l
DUNEDnN. New Zealand, July 28.--
What the Indians are to America the
1|a1fis are to New Zealand. These
hb0fiHines are dying out very rapidly,
but you see them in all the upper por-
tons oI New Zealand. All this country
was once theirs, and they would have
kept IL. but from whaling ships the
foreigners alighted to furnish enough
4,tm and vices of all sorts to kill the
NnofIs They are said to be a superior
race Of savages, but the nobility of them
( ( fail Ia see Their faces are plowed up,
Rot Hitb age, but by tattooing which
tbeS suppose pictorializes and beautifies
Sharp shells scooped out these burrows
Of he countenance. Their greatest fun
Nas massacre. When some of them
adopled christianity, they received the
ola Tcefhment, but rejected the New
Ifal4nenk They liked the war scenes
oi the Old, but not the peace Of the
New Oh occasions they made cartridges
WI the New Testament When they
I|||It| NINiH 0bb oil blGil GuCDllCS, luGy
preserved them i'll tin cans and sent
4fiem rs delicate presents to their
7ffieHes The ship Boyd, bound for Eng
NIand, put in at one of the New Zealand
klFbAfs. md all on board were slain
asia eaten except woman and three
children. who hid away, the only sur
vlTSrs to tell the story.
OF course all ships knew that if they
HWeIe wrecked on these shores they
would Become part of the diet of the
people Two of their chiefs taken to
Eos1'ion ia 1890 aroused much interest,
and they were loaded with presents of
ali sorts. but before starting for home
these feeipients exchanged the presents
fiji mnskets. with which they drove
back and destroyed the neighborin2
tribes who could not afford muskets.
SOME Of these savages went so far as to
len2 clubs and powder and knives to
their eienlies that lively fighting might
be kept up On one occasion they re
41sed to capture the trains carrying food
and Aiulnuiiition TO the opposing forces.
and when the chief of the Maoris was
asked the cause of this he replied,
Why. you fool, if we had captured
flseir anlmunition and food, how could
they have fonght?'' One of the mission
aries says that he held a religious service
at place Dctween two fighting tribes,
and from both tribes the audience was
made up on Sunday, but on Monday
they resumed their old fight. If they
had had plainly put to them the first
question of the catechism, "What is
tho chief end of MANI" their reply, if
frankly made, would have been, ''The
chief end Of man is to make an end of
him. Z
Ds Quincey wrote an essay on "Mur
der as a Fine Art, f" but to the Maoris
murder was a pastime. Assassination
YVES for ages their gladdest recreation
Massacre was their sport. 1t was to
them what the tennis court and croquet
ground and baseball are to many mod
arms No hunter ever enjoyed shooting
seedbirds or fetching down a roebuck,
ao fisherman better liked throwing fly
md watching spotted trout rise and
gap It, than did these Maoris the
laughter of man. Give beef or NUT
on to others, but the appetite of the
Maori wanted something human in the
ill Of fare
Many Of the Maoris may be good and
ind and noble, but their ancestors
tere without nobility of nature unless |
azilless and heartlessness and revenge |
I'D maleyolence be noble What an ap-
etite they must have had for soup Of |
uinan bones, for white man on toast |
nd for spare rib of missionary We |
aarch New Zealand in vain from top of |
forth island to foot of South island |!
find among the Maoris anything more
tbIe than seen in the American Indian |
aated by bridle path of the Rocky |
lountasns. wrapped in filthy blanket, |
niE oombed once in 40 years, waiting |
81 "a cowboy to toss him rusty cent. |
hesa Maoris were the impersonation of |
'nelty and diabolism 1t was to them
re sport when they could take an en-
ny and scalp the skin from the bottom !
the feet--f you can apply to the |
wer extremities the word usually ap-
fo1 70 henppcr crextremities--and make
b victim walk on ropgh place, and
3 siiriek Of pain would make those
lble Earages laugh till You could hear
en- half mile away. Sometimes they
mld, ia order to have fresh meat, cut
flesh frani their victim just as they
pded 1t by nice tidbits and day after
" Back II Osborne, New Zealand,
innko ine peroration of their ac-
mp|istnonfs. they killed all the men.
nucn and children SO that the authors
nhI Atf BE- charged with lack of thor
th1f It'i no most enormous stories
4l.a |taft4Nof their ancestors. These
cekfplH t&4t pay, killed the two great
fflf1a s' WHferloo-W Wellington and
pp'e.A|tsEN The tribe believe ii too.
lt|'|n r N DAYS one of their chiefs
q tntif0 4'Ald wild scenes Of lamen-
1un aug N|ttf the body was put in
RfqpNN tNN thief's hat and blanket
dnplt1f''a N|Ie thrown in after him,
Z fheH 1paIf N the tribe leaped upon
grave N'l'I tewls and dancing Not
IaI|o0 HIIU EIods Of crueltv while