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he says :—“ In one of the canoes (which came from some distance to the 
ship) there was a very handsome young man, of whom I bought some 
things ; he seemed by the variety of his garments, which he sold one after 
another till he had but one left, to be a person of distinction among them ; 
his last garment was an upper one, made of white and black dog-skin, which 
one of the lieutenants would have purchased, and offered him a large piece 
of cloth for it, which he swung down the stern by a rope into the canoe; 
but as soon as the young man had taken it, his companions paddled away 
as fast as possible, shouting and brandishing their weapons as if they had 
made a great prize; and, being ignorant of the power of our weapons, 
thought to have carried it off securely; but a musket was fired at them 
from the stern of the ship; the young man fell down immediately, and, it 
is probable, was mortally wounded, as we did not see him rise again. 
What a severe punishment of a crime committed, perhaps, ignorantly ! 
The name of this unfortunate young man, we afterwards learned, was Te 
Riunui." . So again, while at the Bay of Islands (their next anchorage), he 
says :—'' A canoe came into the bay that had eighty people in her, most of 
whom paddled ; the chiefs wore garments of dog-skins, and were very much 
tattooed. * * * We saw many plantations of the kumera, and some of 
the aute, or cloth trees ” (Morus papyriferus). And in the fifteenth plate of 
his journal he gives **a New Zealand warrior in his proper dress;" in which 
his clothing-mat is a fine one, made of cloth woven from New Zealand flax 
( Phormium) within, and with the skins of black and white dogs alternately 
placed, chequer-fashion, without. Also, in Plate XVIIL, the chiefs in the 
war-canoe are represented as so dressed; and in that ever admirable plate 
of à war canoe fully manned, with rowers paddling* (also taken by our 
artist), the chiefs are dressed in similar garments. 
G. Forster, writing of the New Zealanders whom he saw at Queen 
Charlotte Sound (in Cook Straits), says :—'* The form and colour of these 
people was almost entirely the same as that of the Dusky Bay people; their 
dress was likewise made in the same manner of the flax-plant, but never 
interwoven with feathers, in lieu of which they had bits of dog-skin at the 
four corners of their cloaks, which the others were not fortunate enough 
to possess.” Again he says :—‘ They sold us an apron, made of their close- 
wrought cloth, covered with red feathers, faced with white dog-skin, and 
ornamented with pieces of the ear-shell, which is said to be worn by the 
women in their dances.” And, shortly afterwards, speaking of a large 
canoe of strangers which came up to the ship, he says :—* Two people of a 
fine stature, one at the stern and another about the middle of the canoe, 
stood upright; the former Had a perfect black cloak of the close-wrought 
* Cook's Voyages: first voyage, vol. IIL, Plate XVI. 
