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fond of certain native- trees and shrubs, such as liinaliina. 

 karamu. hroadleaf, mangrove, tawa, and karaka. I myself noticed 

 in l.'lva, in Paterson Inlet, forty years ago, that the only winter 

 food for the cows was hinahina and similar small trees, which had 

 to be cut down for them. My son Stuart informs me that wild 

 cattle art' found in the high country between Lake Wakatipu and 

 the west coast of the South Island; their tracks are numerous, for 

 example, in the valley of the Rockburu. 



In 184:1 cattle were first introduced into the Chatham Islands. 

 Many of them soon became wild, and used to be trapped by the 

 Natives in the early " sixties." Wild cattle are now very numerous 

 in the central tableland. 



In 1850 cattle were landed on tin- Auckland Islands, but they 

 wire all killed off by sealers. In 1894 cattle- were landed from 

 the " Hinemoa at E n derby and Rose Islands "for the use of 

 shipwrecked mariners who were unfortunate enough to be cast 

 ashore on these inhospitable shores. Dr. Cockayne tells me that 

 in 1903 there were about fifteen and ten head respect ively on these 

 two islands, and Mr. B. C. Aston adds that on Knderhv Island 

 they have exterminated the huge tussocks of !'<> 



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The first attempt to introduce sheep into New Zealand was made 

 by Captain Cook during his second voyage to this country. It 

 was unsuccessful, but tin- record is interesting. He- brought away 

 two rams and four ewes from the Cape of (lood Hope, hut by the 

 time the " Ilesolution " entered Dusky Sound in March. 177-5. onl\ 

 ;; ram and a ewe survived, and they were in such a had state. 

 " suffer in -j from an inveterate sea-scurvy." that their teeth wen- 

 loose, and they could not cat the green food which was -riven to 

 them. Korster in his journal states that they " were in so wretched 

 a condition that their further preservat ion was very doubtful." 

 However, they must have improved, for. considering the coiintrx 

 about Dusky Sound too rough and forest dad for them. Cook took 

 them on to Oueen Charlotte Sound, which was entered on the 18th 

 May. In his journal he says. li On the L'l'nd. in the morning, tin- 

 am! ram I had with so much care and trouble brought to 

 this place were both found dead, occasioned, as was supposed. 



