at every application makes an incision into the flesh, and causes the blood to start forth in gushes. This chisel is sometimes nearly a quarter of an inch broad, although, for the more minute parts of the figure, a smaller instrument is used. The stick with which the chisel is struck is occasionally formed into a broad blade at one end, which is applied to wipe away the blood. The tincture is said to be sometimes obtained from the juice of a particular tree. Rutherford has forgotten to mention that, before the cutting has begun the figure is traced out upon the place; this appears to be always done in New Zealand as well as else where, a piece of burnt stick or red earth being, according to Savage,* used for the purpose. Some are tattooed at eight or ten years of age; but a young man is accounted very effeminate who reaches his twentieth year without having undergone the operation. Marsden told one of the chiefs, King George, as he was called, that he must not tattoo his nephew Racow,f who was a very fine-looking youth, with a dignified, open, and placid coun tenance, remarking that it would quite disfigure his face; “but he laughed at my advice,” says Marsden, “and said he must be tattooed, as it would give him a noble, masculine, and war like appearance; that he would not be fit for *''Account of New Zealand.” t Probably Rakau.