THE ADVANTAGES OF " MISCEGENATION."

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 475, 19 July 1871, Page 2

THE ADVANTAGES OF " MISCEGENATION."

THIS DAT.

"J. H." writing in an Australian exchang under the head of " Notes upon New Zealam Travel," goes into ecstasies over the appearanc of a couple of half-castes whom he mot on boari a steamer between Nelson and Tararmki, am thus dilates upon the advantages of mixei blood : —" Fine fruit indeed is the produce c the grafting of the white upon the aboriginal We wishad that our father had been an English man and our mother a Maori. What trouble we should have escaped then ? We shouli have been good looking to begin with. Ou complexion would have been clear brown ; ou oyoß large and dark—and dangerous. Ou hair had been glossy, curly, dark, and as fo quartitj saleable every two months or bo fo chignons and back hair. Our mouths ha been shaped like to Cupid's bow and our lip —had served all purposes of lips. We canno encumber our pages with an enumeration c the uses of a mouth, and the mouth of a hall caste is all that a mouth should be. W should have had the strength of an athlete a a gift of nature—the stomash of a Scotchmai and German combined, and been strangers t (I jßpcpaia for the longest lifetime. We shoul< have known nothing of nerves or of hcadaoh or toothache—and may be nothing of heart ache either. We should never have caugh cold, never wanted our head wrapped up, o: our throat swathed in bandages, nor hot watei to our feet and tallow to our nose at night A chemist's shop would have been a curiosity to us, and the doctor but a dim imaginatir"We ne'er had wanted ear trumpets, — and wigs. We should r blood, the Enr': ' rßnewo'' -