with ochre and oil, was alone sufficient to deter the more sensible from such intimate connections with them; and if we add to this a certain stench which announced them even at a distance, and the abundance of vermin which not only infested their hair, but also crawled on their clothes, and which they occasionally cracked between their teeth, it is astonishing that persons should be found, who could gratify an animal appetite with such loathsome objects, whom a civilized education and national customs should have taught them to hold in abhorrence.”—­G.F.

    May this sad picture have the same effect, which the fathers of Sparta
    expected from the exhibition of their drunken slaves!—­E.

[4] A few miscellaneous observations respecting New Zealand, collected from Mr G.F.’s work, may be given here with interest to some readers:—­The arrival at New Zealand, was most delightful to men who had so long suffered the inclemencies and hardships of a navigation in the southern sea.  Every object seen on the land afforded some agreeable sensation, heightened in no ordinary degree by the contrast which memory presented.  No wonder then, that the description given of the scenery should be somewhat enthusiastic; besides, for every obvious reason, one might be inclined to expect, that Mr G. Forster should exceed even Cook in the warmth of colouring.  It is so.  He speaks in evidently poetical feeling of the delightfully fair weather, the lightly wafting airs, the numerous evergreens mingling with the various shades of autumnal yellow, the wild notes of the feathered tribe, &c.  This was on getting sight of Dusky Bay.  The effects of such charming panorama were visible on all the crew; “emotions of joy and satisfaction,” he tells us, “were strongly marked in the countenance of every individual.”  He is quite aware of the magic at work in his own mind, when contemplating the picture, and accordingly very candidly and very justly says, “So apt is mankind, after a long absence from land, to be prejudiced in favour of the wildest shore, that we looked upon the country at that time, as one of the most beautiful which nature, unassisted by art, could produce.  Such are the general ideas of travellers and voyagers long exhausted by distresses; and with such warmth of imagination they have viewed the rude cliffs of Juan Fernandez, and the impenetrable forests of Tinian!” So much, by the bye, as a hint for understanding the works of some other painters!  But all was not mere semblance of good.  Several substantial advantages were enjoyed, abundance of excellent fish and water-fowl, plenty of wood and water, &c.  To a naturalist besides, there was much to occupy attention and excite curiosity, as a store of animal and vegetable bodies was perceived, bearing little or no resemblance to known species.  But the dream of pleasure, and the hopes of much additional science, were not of very long duration.  The necessary occupations of the