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Barnet Burns (November 1805 – 26 December 1860) was an English sailor, trader, and showman who became one of the first Europeans to live as a Pākehā Māori and to receive the full Māori facial tattoo. He travelled to Australia and found employment as a trader of flax in New Zealand in the 1830s. Burns returned to Europe in 1835 and spent most of his remaining years as a showman giving lectures, where he described the customs of the Māori, performed the haka, exhibited his Māori tattoos and recounted his adventures in New Zealand.〔 ==Early life== It is likely that Barnet Burns was baptised in the parish of Kirkby Ireleth on 25 November 1805. His parents were likely George Burns (born 1770) and Anne (née Stewart). At the age of 13 or 14 he became a cabin boy and ended up working for Louis Celeste Lecesne in Jamaica. When Lecesne travelled to England to petition parliament over his false arrest and exile,〔(''The Anti-slavery Reporter'' ), Zachary Macaulay, Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Vol. 1, pp. 27-31,accessed 12 October 2008.〕 Burns travelled with him.〔("Burns, Barnet" ), ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography'', Volume 1, 1990. Te Ara. Retrieved 25 January 2009.〕 Under the patronage of Lecesne, Burns went to the Lancasterian school at Borough Road in London. Burns again set sail in 1827 on the brig ''Wilna'' and arrived at Rio de Janeiro. Following a dispute between the Captain and crew, all the crew were paid off from the ship and Burns then obtained a berth as steward on the barque ''Nimrod'' Captain Eilbeck, which set out for Australia and arrived at Sydney on 22 August 1828. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barnet Burns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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