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kind, patched in compartments with dog-skin. * * * Among their 
dresses were several cloaks entirely lined with dog-skin, upon which they 
set a high value, and which indeed gave them a very comfortable appear- 
ance in the cold weather that now began to be felt." And six months after, 
on their return to New Zealand from the Society and other islands, having 
made Cape Kidnappers and passed it, and when near to Black Head, their 
ship was visited and boarded by a chief* from the shore in his canoe; to 
him Captain Cook gave some pigs, fowls, and garden seeds; and the chief, 
in return, gave to Captain Cook “his maipi, or battle-axe,t which was 
perfectly new, its head well carved, and ornamented with red parrot's 
feathers and white dog's hair.” 
J. R. Forster, in his “ Observations," also observes:—* The New 
Zealanders employ the skins of dogs for their clothes, but merely for 
convenience, namely, to keep them warm. They also make use of their 
hair in various ornaments, especially to fringe their breast-plates in the 
Bociety Isles, and to face or even line the whole garment at New Zealand." 
It appears, therefore, from the united testimony of the first visitors to 
this country that the ancient New Zealand dog was much like those of 
Tahiti and other South Sea isles—that it was merely a domestic animal, 
small in size, with pointed nose, prick ears, and very little eyes; that it 
was dull, stupid, and ugly; that it was of various colours, white, black, 
brown, and parti-coloured, with lank long hair, and ashort bushy tail; that 
it was fed on fish and refuse offal, and that it was quiet, lazy, and sullen, had 
little or no scent, and had no proper bark. Further, that its flesh was used 
by the New Zealanders for food, its skin for clothing, and its hair 
(particularly the long white hair of the tail) for ornamental purposes. 
And Captain Cook incidentally remarks on the great attachment of the New 
Zealanders to their dogs; for, in speaking of a native chief whom he had 
known, a father giving him his son to go away with him in his ship, he 
says:—‘‘ When about to sail, a boy of about ten years of age, named 
Kokoa, was presented to me by his own father, who I believe would have 
parted with his dog with far less indifference.’’§ 
It seems certain that the variety of dog found by them in New Zealand 
* This chief, of whom a portrait is given in Cook’s Voyages, I have ascertained to be 
Tuanui, the ancestor of the present Henare Matua, of Porangahau, so well known among 
us. Tuanui put off from Poureerere, and Cook’s gifts to him were well remembered and 
reumstantially related. From some of those “garden seeds” sprang the “ Maori 
DAN ” of the coast, which, thirty years ago, grew very thickly there and on to 
Palliser Bay, and often served me, when travelling, for breakfast. 
t Much like that one of mine, yS above, p. 135. 
t Observations, pp. 189,208. 
$ G. Forster also remarks on it, ante, 
