Crozet goes out of his way to describe how the kindly captain refused to put the thief in irons, though the man's own chief asked that it should be done.

But it leaks out--from the statement of another officer--that the thief was put in irons.

We may believe that he was flogged also.
[Illustration: STERN OF CANOE] Crozet marked the physical strength of the Maori, and was particularly struck with the lightness of the complexions of some, and the European cast of their features.

One young man and a young girl were as white as the French themselves.

Others were nearly black, with frizzled hair, and showed, he thought, Papuan blood.