CHAPTEE IX 



CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND 

 Nov. 22, 1769 MARCH 30, 1770 



Tattowing Thieving of the natives Cannibalism Rapid healing of shot- 

 wounds Native seines Paper mulberry Native accounts of their 

 ancestors' expedition to other countries Three Kings Islands Christmas 

 Day Albatross swimming Mount Egmont Murderers' Bay Queen 

 Charlotte's Sound Threats of natives Corpses thrown into the sea 

 Cannibalism Singing-birds Fishing-nets Human head preserved 

 Discovery of Cook's Straits Native names for New Zealand, and tradi- 

 tions Courteous native family Leave Queen Charlotte's Sound Tides 



Cape Turnagain Coast along the southern island Banks' Peninsula 



Appearance of minerals Mountains along the west coast Anchor in 

 Admiralty Bay. 



. Two large canoes came from a distance; the people 

 in them were numerous and appeared rich ; the canoes were 

 well carved and ornamented, and they had with them many 

 patoo-patoos of stone and whale-bone which they value very 

 much. They had also ribs of whales, of which we had often 

 seen imitations in wood carved and ornamented with tufts 

 of dog's hair. The people themselves were browner than 

 those to the southward, as indeed they have been ever since 

 we came to Opoorage, as this part is called, and they had a 

 much larger quantity of amoca or black stains upon their 

 bodies and faces. They had almost universally a broad 

 spiral on each buttock, and many had their thighs almost 

 entirely black, small lines only being left untouched, so that 

 they looked like striped breeches. In this particular, I 

 mean the use of amoca, almost every tribe seems to have a 

 different custom ; we have on some days seen canoes where 



