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PREFACE.
Perhaps, at the present moment, no country in the world is more peculiarly interesting than New Zealand; no race of men more singular than its Aboriginal Inhabitants.
The position the New Zealanders hold with respect to thousands of our countrymen, and the great change that is daily going on in their physical and social condition, renders it necessary that a more correct idea of them should be obtained at home, than one offered by mere description. Up to the present time, the New Zealander, it is submitted, has never been carefully and faithfully pourtrayed; and his habits, costumes, and works of art, though so rapidly disappearing before the progress of Christianity and Civilization, are yet unrecorded by the pencil of the artist.
To accomplish this task, I visited both Islands of New Zealand, and spent a considerable period in travelling round their coasts, and penetrating through the interior--by seeking out nearly every tribe of natives, and living amongst them for some time, in the remote and almost unknown parts of the country, I have succeeded in obtaining portraits of the most important Chiefs, with their families, and have made drawings, on the spot, of all objects of interest connected with their history.
I take this opportunity of returning my thanks to Thomas Spencer Forsaith, Esq., the Protector of Aborigines, at Auckland, for his useful assistance on many points connected with the natives, and in procuring me the friendship of several influential Chiefs.
I also return my thanks to the Missionaries, and those Gentlemen at the various settlements from whom I received such polite assistance and attention.
GEORGE FRENCH ANGAS.
London: July 1, 1846.
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