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took it round south with him to Foveaux Strait. The whalers subsequently 

 named a place (Pahi's, near Orepuki) after this chief. 



Te Horo is the name of the place in Milford Sound where the takiwai 

 {tangiwai) greenstone is got. It is a clifi-face behind Anita Bay. Piopio- 

 tahi, as I understand it, was originally the name of the C'leddau Jiiver, 

 but is now applied to the whole soimd. The Maori went round in canoes 

 from Murihiku (Southland) to Piopiotahi to get takiwai up to about fifty 

 or sixty years ago. It is said by the southern Maori that, although the 

 greenstone at Milford was inferior, good pounamu could be got at Barn 

 Bay, some distance farther north. 



One old man said to me, " In 1841 Anglem, Gilroy, Stirling, and others 

 started trading with Sydney in flax, and they also opened up greenstone- 

 quarries about Milford. The flax was properly dressed (tvhitau). They 

 had natives getting greenstone at Piopiotahi, and they took this greenstone 

 to the North Island and exchanged it for plenty of flax, which they could 

 sell at Sydney for £70 or £80 a ton. While getting the pounamu at IMilford 

 a boat, overloaded with the stone, capsized and sank between two rocks." 



Some years ago I had a chat with Mrs. Gilroy, who was a daughter of 

 Captain Anglem, and was born on the west coast, near Puysegur Point, 

 about the year 1832. She narrated : " After taking flax to Sydney my 

 father came back and took one lot of greenstone to "China. The stone was 

 got at Piopiotahi, or Milford, and neither Stirling nor Gilroy had anything 

 to do with it. My father was living at the Bluff then. Captain Waybone (?), 

 of the schooner ' Success,' was washed overboard one stormy night off the 

 Bluff, and the vessel came in and lay here five or six weeks. Johnny Jones, 

 who was part-owner, got my father to take the schooner back to Sydney. 

 My father came back in a brig,' 'The Eoyal Mail,' and, picking up all 

 the old natives here, he took them round to Milford to get greenstone. 

 I was a girl at the time. The owner of ' The Royal Mail ' came over in 

 the ' Anita ' and sailed round to Milford, and after they got a cargo of green- 

 stone both vessels proceeded to China." Here the narrative unfortunately 

 ends. I was gathering Maori place-names — Mrs. Gilroy gave me a long 

 and valuable list — and did not pursue the subject of greenstone further. 



One thing that has always struck me is the great number of greenstone 

 tools, weapons, and ornaments that has been found in Otago, and also 

 the very wide extent over which the finds range. Either the population 

 was much larger at one time, or the limited number of inhabitants worked 

 unceasingly to produce such a quantity of manufactured stone. Then, 

 again, the Maori must have been very happy-go-lucky or indifferent in 

 their care of possessions so valuable to a people in the Stone Age. 

 Although much may have been buried with the dead or hidden in the 

 earth for safety and left there through the owners dying, yet a large 

 quantity has been found lying on the ground as if carelessly thrown down 

 by travelling parties and left unretrieved and forgotten. As already 

 inferred, these greenstone articles (" curios," the pakeha calls them)' have 

 been found in most parts of Otago. Among other localities where such 

 have been found, I see I have a note that an axe-head was picked up on 

 the top of the Old Man Range, near the Kawarau end. Many farmhouses 

 throughout Otago possess greenstone curios picked uj) in the neighbour- 

 hood, and if the whole could be gathered in one place, together with 

 museum collections and private collectors' hoards, it would, I am sure, 

 make an array of astonishing extent. Several days ago, too, at a place 

 near where I am writing in Gore, a big adze-head was dug up, and much 

 more mav still be found. 



