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breed to have remained in New Zealand with such of the 

 Moriori people who escaped to the high lands of New Zealand 

 at the time of the aforesaid submergence. 



The mixed race — the present Maori — may be the descend- 

 ants of Morioris who, from expectation of returning to their 

 former home, travelled onward until, coming in contact with 

 a Negrito race, they acquired a taint of the blood of the latter 

 people, but were ultimately compelled to retreat backward to 

 islands which once formed the mountain-peaks of their ori- 

 ginal home. Hence the Samoans say that the distant land of 

 the Maori, called Hawaiki, is not in this present world, but is 

 doivn beloiv. 



Any way, we know that the Negrito race had, and still 

 have, an able-bodied hunting-dog, however they came by it.- 

 We find the Australian blacks making use of the dingo, which 

 they partially domesticate. Therefore, if the Maori are a 

 crossed people, we get the Moriori dog, the dog of the Negrito, 

 allied to the dingo, and such other varieties as may have 

 resulted from the cross from the two pure forms. 



Even supposing we only have in New Zealand a dog ori- 

 ginally identical with that of Tahiti, this dog will have been 

 resident in its new home some three hundred years under 

 changed conditions. In its former home tropical fruits and 

 fish were abundant ; hence the dogs chiefly fed on the remains 

 of their masters' feasts. But, on the other hand, these Poly- 

 nesian or Negrito peoples had brought forward the pig from 

 the Archipelago or from the mainland of Asia. In some of 

 the Polynesian islands were found both the dog and pig; 

 other islands were acquainted with the one or the other 

 animal only ; and in the Island of Nine was no animal of any 

 kind, I believe, not even the rat. Here, then, in Tahiti we see 

 the pig and dog kept by a Maori people. Yet Mr. Colenso 

 supposes that the Maoris of New Zealand must have of neces- 

 sity required the English dog, to match the pigs which Captain 

 Cook brought to New Zealand from Tahiti or a contiguous 

 island. Cook makes such entries in his writings as this : 

 " Landed here some ings and fowls, ivhich ivc brought from 

 the islands." 



We know that animals of a white colour, not albinoes, but 

 such having the eye of the normal colour, are almost invari- 

 ably those which have been long domesticated by man. 

 For instance. Professor Boyd Dawkins assumes that the 

 white wild cattle of Chillingham Park and others are feral 

 descendants of the domesticated urus. The fact of their being 

 white precludes the possibility of their being an original form. 

 Black is in nature the complementary colour to white, and 

 therefore we expect to find these two colours (if I may so 

 term it) running parallel in the same varieties of animals or 



