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next bay, which was Grass Cove, we saw four canoes, one 

 single and three double ones, and a great many people on the 

 beach, who on our approach retreated to a small hill within 

 a ship's length of the water-side, where they stood talking to 

 us." The small bill alluded to by Mr. Burney rises up from 

 the beach about the middle of the cove. Captam Cook visited 

 this place three years afterwards, on his third voyage, and 

 tells what he could find out about the cause of the calamity. 

 He also says, " Pedro and his companions, besides relating 

 the history of the massacre, made us acquainted with the 

 very spot that was the scene of it. It is at the corner of the 

 cove on the right hand." This means, I feel sure, the right- 

 hand corner of the cove looking towards it from seawards. 



Grass Cove is known to the people of the Sound as Nott's 

 Bay. Its Maori name is Otanerua. 



Professor Morris, in vol. xxxiii. of the Transactions, page 

 501, falls into an error about the locality of this massacre, 

 and records that it happened at a place which he calls Adven- 

 ture Bay. There is no Adventure Bay on either Cook's chart 

 or the modern one. The bay alluded to, of which Professor 

 Morris says the two headlands are Edgecumbe Point and 

 Marine Point, is called on the modern chart Endeavour Inlet 

 and on Cook's old chart West Bay. 



Art. V. — Food Products of Tuhoeland : being Notes on the 

 Food-supplies of a Non-agricultural Tribe of the Natives 

 of New Zealand; together with some Account of various 

 Customs, Superstitions, die., pertaininy to Foods. 



By Elsdon Best. 

 [Read before the Auckland Institute, 6th October, 1902.] 

 It will probably surprise many to learn that a non-agricultural 

 tribe of Maoris obtained in the North Island of New Zealand 

 to within comparatively late times. It was in this wise : 

 Before their conquest of the Buatoki and Waimana districts 

 the Tuhoe or Urewera Tribe possessed no lands on which the 

 kumara, taro, or hue might be cultivated, their country con- 

 sisting of remarkably rugged and high-lying ranges, with 

 narrow gullies between them, and with nothing in the way 

 of flat land or alluvial soil. The three cultivated food plants 

 enumerated above, possessed by the Maori in pre-European 

 days, will not thrive in this region, and hence the denizens 

 of Tuhoeland, the Children of the Mist, were compelled to 

 subsist upon the products of forest and stream. Of course, 

 when the potato was acquired from the early European 

 voyagers to these shores, then it was found that the new 



