498 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Maori age, and from the time in which it was made (also on 

 Maori testimony), that it must therefore have been that of the 

 indigenous Maori dog, further says, " This part of New Zea- 

 land — Cape Egmont — was quite unvisited by the very early 

 whalers and traders up to about the years 1825 to 1830, and 

 only then very occasionally, so there can by no possibility be 

 any chance of these skins being crossed with the European 

 dog; and I have yet to learn that the very early traders 

 brought dogs with them as an article of trade." (Paper, 

 p. 545.) 



To meet this (or, rather, these two statements), I quote 

 the following from Dr. Marshall's New Zealand : :|: — 



" Examination of Mr. John Guard, master of the barque 

 ' Harriet,' before the Executive Council, New South Wales, 

 22nd August, 1834 :— 



" In proceeding from Port Jackson to Cloudy Bay, New 

 Zealand, the ' Harriet ' was wrecked on the 29th April last, 

 near Cape Egmont, on the Northern Island. The crew, con- 

 sisting of twenty-eight men, all escaped on shore, as also one 

 woman and two children. About thirty or forty natives 

 came the third day after we were wrecked. "We had made 

 tents on shore of our sails. . . . On the 7th May about 

 two hundred more natives came down .... They 

 did nothing that day, but on the following day they came all 

 naked, and at least a hundred and fifty with muskets, and 

 the rest with tomahawks and spears. . . . The tribes 

 there could not raise above three hundred men in the whole, 

 and about tiuo hundred muskets. . . . I have been trading 

 with the New-Zealanders since 1823, and have lived a great 

 deal amongst them. . . . One of the crew, who had been 

 trading with the New-Zealanders for nearly six years, and 

 had lived on shore about thirty or forty miles from whence 

 these natives came, understood their language perfectly ; I 

 also understood it partly myself." (L.c, pp. 344-348.) 



And, again, Dr. Marshall says (after a stay there of more 

 than a fortnight), "The openness of the coast, the violence 

 and frequency of an impassable surf along its shores, render- 

 ing any supply of fresh fish contingent upon the winds and 

 weather, and, consequently, very precarious, while the ab- 

 sence of native animals, and the paucity of those imported, 

 such as dogs and pigs, occasion a dearth of flesh-meat, and 

 force the people to feed chiefly upon vegetable diet. 

 The dog, from the treble purpose served by it, of a watch 



* Dr. Marshall's narrative of his two visits to New Zealand, as 

 surgeon in H.M.S. " Alligator," in 1834, is very interesting. His book 

 was published in London in 183G. I knew him personally : he was a 

 truly honourable man, and a good Christian. 



