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April, which (in part) is also worth copying. He says :—“ These people 
also are fond of dog's-flesh, and reckon it delicious food, which we discovered 
by their bringing the leg of a dog roasted to sell. Mr. Banks ate a piece of 
it and admired it much. He went out immediately and bought one and 
gave it to some Indians to kill and dress it in their manner, which they 
did accordingly. * — * ^ At night it was served up for supper, I ate a 
little of it, it had the taste of coarse beef, and a strong disagreeable smell ; 
but Captain Cook, Mr. Banks, and Dr. Solander commended it highly, 
saying it was the sweetest meat they had ever tasted, but the rest of our 
people could not be prevailed on to eat any of it. We have invented a new 
dish, which is as much disliked by the natives as any of theirs is by us. 
Here is a species of rats, of which there are great numbers in this island. 
We caught some of them and had them fried. Most of the gentlemen in 
the bell-tent ate of them, and commended them much, and some of the 
inferior officers ate them in a morning for breakfast." And, subsequently, 
on their passage thence to New Zealand, we have also this entry in his 
Journal :— On the 27th August we killed a dog, and dressed him, which 
we brought from Ulietea (Raiatea) : he was excessively fat, although he had 
eaten nothing while he had been on board"* (nearly twenty days). 
On shore at Tolago Bay, Cook and his party first saw the New Zealand 
dog. Cook says :—“ No tame animals were seen among the natives except 
dogs, whieh were very small and ugly." And, again, on leaving Tolago, 
he says :—'* We saw no four-footed animals, nor the appearance of any, 
either tame or wild, except dogs and rats, and these were very scarce; the 
people eat the dogs like our friends at Tahiti." 
Parkinson's entry in his Journal at Tolago respecting the dog is :—** Of 
quadrupeds we saw no other than dogs, which were like those on the island 
of Tahiti, and of them but a few." Another entry of his in his Journal 
respecting a dog, made in March, on leaving the south coasts of New 
Zealand (on the day they discovered those dangerous shoals called the 
* Traps"), is also worthy of notice. Parkinson says:—‘* This day the 
weather was more moderate than it had been for many days, and being one of 
the inferior officers' birthday, it was celebrated by a peculiar kind of festival ; 
& dog was killed that had been bred on board; the hind-quarters were 
roasted, and a pye was made of the fore-quarters, into the erust of which 
they put the fat; and of the viscera they made a haggis!” (We must 
remember that Dok was a Scotchman). 
From George Forster (who, with his father, J. R. Poesie. aecompanied 
Cook on his second voyage), we gain good information respecting the New 
Zealand dog. He first saw them in Queen Charlotte Sound, before their 
* B. Parkinson's Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, pp. 20, 81. 
