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bones of the Maori dog, like the former, partly calcined and broken, 
having been used for food, as well as portions of skeletons of shags, 
penguins, and some other birds. When examining the shell beds 
we had repeatedly found amongst them match-boxes, small bones 
of sheep, and other remnants of European life, evidently brought 
into their present position by means of numerous rat-holes passing 
through these upper beds; also near to this inconsiderable spot 
not filled up by the sea-sands a few small European remains had 
found their way, which, if the mode of their transport had not been 
clear to me, might have been a great puzzle. A considerable 
amount of drift timber was lying here,—without doubt mostly 
brought so far back by human agency, a great deal of it being 
charred or partly burnt; and all the evidence before me went 
to show that this spot, hidden as it was from the entrance by 
the huge rock in front of it, had been a favourite camping and 
eating ground both of the moa-hunting and afterwards of the shell- 
fish-eating populations. 
For another week I continued to occupy the workmen in the 
south-eastern portion of the cave, but gradually advancing towards 
the western side of the cross trench. Before reaching the trench 
we came across a stand, having been used for the stabling of a 
horse, which had been dug into the shell bed to a depth of several 
feet, in some spots reaching actually down to the marine sands. 
This strange place for a stable was now mostly filled with horse- 
dung and European kitchen middens, well trampled down, and 
above them with a layer of the excrements of cattle. Altogether, 
in this part of the cave, the beds had been much disturbed by the 
cave-dwellers of European origin; so that in some instances moa 
bones were actually mixed up with bones of butcher’s meat, lying 
now together in the disturbed shell beds. 
When advancing towards the point where the two main trenches 
crossed each other, the workmen observed standing vertically in 
the sands the remains of two much decomposed piles, having a 
diameter of about eight inches, and which apparently had been 
deprived of their bark by means of a smooth stone implement, 
before having been placed in their present position. Evidently 
they had been burned to the ground before the lowest dirt bed had 
been deposited, their charred ends standing scarcely above the 
level of the marine sands. Of these piles the first was observed 
fifteen feet from the eastern wall of the cave and six feet behind 
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