The savage, old Taraia, gave me the above. He is a restless-looking old man with a keen clear glance, full of expression and anxiety. He has seen many Summer suns, and the Winter of life is evident on the grey head of the wily old cannibal, who is the perpetrator of the last act of the kind recorded in New Zealand Annual. To civilize him would be more difficult than to tame a lion or a tiger. In the latter case, the animal only has to be subdued; in the other, man's intellectual capacity requires to be subdued. Yet we unreasonably expect these people to become civilized British subjects in a day or a year, or even in a moment of time; never reflecting on the time our own civilization has been going on, before it has attained its present state; and often disregarding the remnants of savage usuage existing in the most civilized states at the present day.