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now, when Captain Cook again revisited his old anchorage at Queen 
Charlotte Sound, where he was well known, and the natives, coming from 
all parts in their canoes to see him, took with them all their domestic dogs, 
simply because they could not possibly leave them at home ; and hence, on 
Mr. Anderson seeing so many dogs with them in their canoes, he reasonably 
concluded there must be plenty more at home. This trait in their character, 
of always taking with them in their eanoes their live domestie stock, has 
come down to comparatively modern times. I have seen plenty of it! 
Dr. Sparrman, the Swedish naturalist (who, I think, was a better 
zoologist than the two Forsters, judging from what he has published in 
English of his travels and discoveries in Africa), who also accompanied 
Cook in his second: voyage, has unfortunately not given us any particulars 
of this voyage to the South Seas, although I believe such were published by 
him at Stockholm in his own language—at least he intimates as much in 
his *Voyages."* If so, perhaps some scientific gentleman of that country 
may ere long inform the colony of New Zealand of it. 
Further: It may be also well to see to what uses the New Zealanders put 
their dogs besides that of using them for food. Captain Cook gives us very 
little information under this head, contenting himself with saying, (in his 
First Voyage) “ that the people of Tolago Bay adorn their garments with the 
skins of their dogs, as we do ours with furs and ermine "—and, that 
* some others whom he fell in with in their canoes near Cape Brett, had 
weapons of stone and whalebone, and also the ribs of a whale carved, and 
adorned with tufts of dog's hair." Mr. Anderson also briefly says, ‘ their 
work (of clothing flax-mats) is often ornamented with pieces of dog-skin; 
sometimes they cover their flax-mat with dog-skin, and that alone we have 
seen worn as a covering.” But, while Cook and Banks and Solander and 
Anderson are so provokingly concise, Parkinson and the two Forsters are 
much more profuse and clear. 
Sydney Parkinson informs us early, like.a true artist noticing the 
beautiful, that the first natives they saw in six canoes on leaving Poverty 
Bay ‘‘had garments wrapped about them made of a silky flax, each corner 
being ornamented with a piece of dog-skin.” And a little further on in his 
journal (in narrating that memorable adventure here in our waters of 
Hawke Bay, in which the New Zealanders kidnapped Tupaea’s lad, 
Taiota, which circumstance also gave the name to our southern cape), 
Parkinson says :—** An old man who sat in the stern" (of that kidnapping 
canoe) “ had on a garment of some beast’s skin, with long hair, dark brown 
and white border, which we would have purchased but they were not willing 
to part with anything.” And again, shortly after, while at Mercury Bay, 
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