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they had really been ladies of fashion in Europe. We were witnesses of a 
remarkable instance of kindness, when we saw a middle-aged woman, whose 
breasts were full of milk, offering them to a little puppy which had been 
trained up to suck them. We were so much surprised at this sight that we 
could not help expressing our dislike of it; but she smiled at our observation, 
and added that she suffered little pigs to do the same service. Upon 
enquiry, however, we found that she had lost her child, and did her the 
justice among ourselves to acknowledge that this expedient was very 
innocent, and formerly practised in Europe. The dogs of all these islands 
were short, and their sizes vary from that of a lap-dog to the largest 
spaniel. Their head is broad, the snout pointed, the eyes very small, the 
ears upright, and their hair rather long, lank, hard, and of different colours, 
but most commonly white and brown. They seldom, if ever, barked, but 
howled sometimes, and were shy of strangers to a degree of aversion.” 
Again he says :—“ The quantity of live stock which we had purchased 
during our stay there was amazing. * * * The ‘Resolution’ alone 
had 209 live hogs, 30 dogs, and about 50 fowls on board when she sailed ; 
and the * Adventure’ had not much less." And a little further on he says: 
—‘ The want of room occasioned the death of several hogs; and the obstinacy . 
of the old dogs in refusing to take any sustenance deprived us of the greatest 
number of those animals." About a month after, when their ship was near 
to the coast of New Zealand, he says :—‘ Some of our people who examined 
the pump-well found there a dog, which they brought up on deck. This 
creature, which had been purchased at the island of Huahine, like many 
others of the same species, had obstinately refused to take any nourishment, 
and in all probability had lived ever since in that hole without the least 
support of food for a space of thirty-nine or forty days. The whole body 
was reduced to a mere skeleton, the legs were contracted, and he voided 
blood at the anus. The torments in which this poor animal must have 
lived were a lesson to our people to purchase only young puppies of this race 
for the future, as the grown dogs constantly refused to eat on board." 
The elder Forster in his work also says :—‘ The dogs of the South Sea 
isles are of a singular race; they mostly resemble the common cur, but 
have a prodigious large head, remarkably little eyes, prick-ears, long hair, 
and a short bushy tail. They are chiefly fed with fruit at the Society Isles; 
but in the low isles and New Zealand, where they are the only domestic 
animals, they live upon fish. They are exceedingly stupid, and seldom or 
never bark, only howl now and then; have the sense of smelling in a very 
low degree, and are lazy beyond measure; they are kept by the natives 
chiefly for the sake of their flesh, of which they are very fond, preferring it 
to pork, * + * The New Zealanders continually living on fish are 
