§0 NATURAL HISTORY OF KERGUELEN ISLAND. 



Original No. 



50. Sulphur. 



51. Very impure graphite with quartz. 



52. Pyrite and quartz. 



53. Copper-ore, sulphide and carbonates. 



54. Natrolite in basalt. 



55. Same as 53. 



56. Compact limonite (hydrated sesquioxide of iron). 



57. Coal. 



58. Chrome-ore. 



59. Covellite (copper indigo), copper mineral. 



60. Same as 44. 



61. Suli)hur. 



62. Aragonite (carb. of lime), radio-columnar. 



Fossils are not determined as yet ; nor greenish mineral in basalt. 

 Former appear to be carboniferous. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



TSat. Mus. No. 



14783 ) 



} Two skulls, with leg-bones of Maoris, from Chatham Island. 



14784 J 



14782 Skull of Maori-ori, or Chatham Island aborigine, concerning 

 which Dr. Kershner writes that it was " picked up from the 

 surface of the ground, having been exposed to the weather. 

 It is said that this race never buried their dead, but carried 

 them out and deposited them in heaps, where they were left 

 to decay, so that the bones are easily found in many different 

 parts of the island. They were cannibals; the remnants of 

 the race now found in the island having been known to prac- 

 tice cannibalism as late as about ten years ago. They now 

 number only about twenty-five souls, are limited to a reserva- 

 tion, and sustained by the colonial government. The name 

 Maori-ori is said to mean ' before the Maoris,' and indicates 

 that these people, the aborigines of Chatham Island, had beea 

 subdued and, in great measure, displaced by the Maoris." 

 It seems not improbable that this race represents also the 

 aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand, which ha^ quite dis- 

 appeared before the discovery of the islands by Europeans. 

 Chatham Island lies east of New Zealand, at the distance of 

 about six hundred miles, in latitude 48° south. 



