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were obtained, but too small for recognition of the species. There were 
also some phalanges of the fur seal, a number of bones of small birds, and 
several marine shells, some of them fragmentary, belonging to Mesodesma 
nove-zealandie, Mactra discors, and Mytilus smaragdinus, the New Zealand 
mussel. Flakes of chert and flint were, as usual, present, as well as some 
fragments of a polished stone implement. There were also two large sub- 
angular boulders of sandstone, doubtless brought up from the river-bed of 
the Waikari. 
Principally towards the centre of the rock-shelter, and where the older 
deposits were thinnest, occurred above them accumulations of Maori and 
European origin. Amongst them are, in the collection made, several pieces 
of Haliotis iris, the pawa shell of the Maoris, which had evidently been 
worked, but the presence of numerous pieces of Neweastle coal, of ribs and 
other portions of the sheep, and the iron tip of a man's boot, told clearly 
its tale. This bed, about six inches thick and about eight feet long and 
four feet wide, was resting on both sides on the older deposits with broken 
moa bones. It is in this spot where the water during heavy rain, as 
experienced by Mr. Cousins and myself, is flowing against the wall of the 
 rock-shelter, and it therefore stands to reason that these remnants of 
. European occupancy could easily be trampled into the ground, and thus 
- reach a deeper position than they otherwise naturally would have possessed. 
No remains of red or black paint, or of a receptacle for the paint, were 
amongst the kitchen middens. These excavations revealed another im- 
portant fact —namely, that the small drawings which were close to the floor 
of the rock-shelter, and often reached to it, but were too faint to be copied, 
never went below it. It perhaps would not be too rash to surmise that the . 
people who formed the kitehen middens made the paintings, during their 
visits, lying on the ground, when the lower ones were executed; on the 
other hand, they could just reach the top of the shelter when they stood | 
upright to finish the larger figures previously described. I must confess I 
was rather disappointed not to receive a larger quantity of objects from the 
kitchen middens, and of more interest. We must, therefore, conelnde that 
the rock-shelter was only seldom visited by man, and then was only 
inhabited for a very short time. 
I hope that, very soon, I shall have another opportunity to communicate - 
to you the results of further researches on this very interesting subject. I 
trust that some of our members will also take their share in the elucidation 
of a question which may throw considerable light upon the pre-historic 
inhabitants of these fair islands, on which so many members of a race 
different from their present aborigines have found a happy home. 
Since the above was written, I had the great advantage of ENTE 
