Have you any idea whether the New Zealanders ideas of Beauty either in face or whole person, in their women, is like ours? i.e. would the handsomest woman in a tribe in the eyes of a New Zealander, be the handsomest woman in our eyes?

Yes

I am aware it is a mere chance whether you can answer this odd question; & certainly no one less familiar with the natives than you are, could answer it.— Lastly do the chief men generally succeed in getting for their wives the handsomest women, or do they care more for a good work-woman?

Both— In the old times almost every girl pretty or promising to be so, whom one might see in a pa was sure to be taken to some chief—² But the aristō’s took care to have wives skilled in watu-ing mats³ and in cookery— In the straits Ngatiruanui ladies were highly prized from their skill in roasting potatos—⁴

Another charm was rank in their own or a neighb^g. tribe   Te Hapuku of Ahuriri,⁵ has succeeded thus in greatly increasing his importance & doubling that of his children—

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