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become extinct; or, lastly, that they still have an intercourse with other 
islands where these animals exist." 
G. Forster also says of the natives of Mallicollo (one of the New 
Hebrides group) :—'* Hogs and common poultry are their domestic animals, 
to which we have added dogs by selling them a pair of puppies brought 
from the Society Islands. They received them with strong signs of extreme 
satisfaction ; but as they called them hogs (puaha), we were convinced 
that they were entirely new to them." 
And Capt. Cook, in his third voyage, states that at the island of 
Mangaia which he discovered they had no such animals as hogs and dogs— 
both which, however, they had heard of. This information he obtained from 
Mourua, a chief of that island, who visited his ship and conversed on board 
with the Tahitian native Omai, who was now returning to his own country 
from England in Cook’s ship. Another interesting item Cook relates 
concerning this chief. He says:—‘‘As soon as Mourua got out of the 
cabin, he happened to stumble over one of the goats. His curiosity now 
overcoming his fear, he stopped, looked at it, and asked Omai what bird this 
was, and not receiving an immediate answer from him, he repeated the 
question to some of the people upon deck.’’ And a few days after, at the 
next island, Atiu, which Cook also discovered and visited, he found that they 
had hogs but no dogs, though they knew the name of it, and “ were very 
desirous of obtaining a dog, of which animal this island could not boast, 
though its inhabitants knew that the race existed in other islands of their 
ocean." Of the people of this island Cook further says :—** Our visitors 
were conducted all over the ship. * * * They were afraid to come near 
the cows and horses; nor did they form the least conception of their nature. 
But the sheep and goats did not surpass the limits of their ideas, for they 
gave us to understand that they knew them to be birds. * * * Thenext 
day, soon after daybreak, we observed some canoes coming off to the ships, 
and one of them directed its course to the ‘Resolution’ (Cook's own ship). 
In it was a hog, with some plantains and cocoa-nuts, for which the people 
who brought them demanded a dog from us, and refused every other thing 
that we offered in exchange. One of our gentlemen on board happened to 
have a dog and a bitch, which were great nuisances in the ship, and might 
have been disposed of on this occasion for a purpose of real utility, by 
propagating a race of so useful an animal in this island. But their owner 
had no such views in making them the companions of his voyage. How- 
ever,to gratify these people, Omai parted with a favourite dog he had 
brought from England, and with this acquisition they departed highly 
satisfied." 
