sceptical have yet more to learn. I have also a great deal to say
on the other side of the character, for the Battas have many
virtues. I prize them highly.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote D: At the extreme north of the Philippine Islands.]

[Footnote E: Hawaii.]

[Footnote F: Phormium tenax.]

[Footnote G: méré.]

[Footnote H: Nicholas's "Voyage to New Zealand."]

[Footnote I: The transport "Boyd" was taken by Maoris and burned at
Whangaroa Harbour in 1809. Most of the people on board were massacred,
there being only four survivors out of seventy souls.]

[Footnote J: William Marsden, who was sent out from Dublin to Sumatra,
about 1775, as a writer in the East India Company's service.]




CHAPTER II.


Rutherford and his comrades spent another night in the same manner as