idently a person of
considerable quickness, and great powers of observation. He went over
every part of his journal, which was read to him, with considerable
care, explaining any difficulties, and communicating several points of
information, of which we have availed ourselves in the course of this
narrative.

His manners were mild and courteous; he was fond of children, to whom he
appeared happy to explain the causes of his singular appearance and he
was evidently a man of very sober habits. He was pleased with the idea
of his adventures being published; and was delighted to have his
portrait painted, though he suffered much inconvenience in sitting to
the artist, with the upper part of his body uncovered, in a severe
frost.

Upon the whole he seemed to have acquired a great deal of the frankness
and easy confidence of the people with whom he had been living, and was
somewhat out of his element amidst the constrained intercourse and
unvarying occupations of England. He greatly disliked being shown for
money, which he submitted to principally that he might acquire a sum, in
addition to what he received for his manuscript, to return to Otaheite.

We have not heard of him since that time; and the probability is that he
has accomplished his wishes. He said that he should have no hesitation
in going to New Zealand; that his old companions would readily believe
that he had been carried away by force; that from his knowledge of their
customs, he could be most advantageously employed in trading with them;
and that, above all, if he were to take back a blacksmith with him, and
plenty of iron, he might acquire many of the most valuable productions
of the country, particularly tortoiseshell,[CQ] which he considered the
best object for an English commercial adventure.[CR]

Rutherford is not the only native of a civilized country whose fate it
has been to become resident for some time among the savages of New
Zealand. Besides his shipmates, who were taken prisoners along with him,
he himself, indeed, as we have seen, mentions two other individuals whom
he met with while in the country, one of whom had been eight years
there, and did not seem to have any wish to leave it.

[Illustration: A Maori war canoe.]

Savage gives a short notice of a European who was living in the
neighbourhood of the Bay of Islands when he was there in 1805. This
person, whose native country, or the circumstances that had induced him
to take up his abo