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brought off the hogs, but the dogs were turned loose, and with the cloth left 
behind. In return for the hogs, our people left some hatchets, nails, and 
other things, making signs to some of the Indians who were in sight to take 
them away with their cloth. After the boat had returned on board, the 
Indians brought down two more hogs, and called us to fetch them; the 
boat, therefore, returned and fetched off the two hogs, but still left the 
cloth, though the Indians made signs that we should take it. Our people 
reported that they had not touched any of the things they had left upon the 
beach for them, and somebody suggesting that they would not take our 
offering because we had not accepted their cloth, I gave orders that it should 
be fetched away. The event proved that the conjecture was true, for the - 
moment the boat had taken the cloth on board, the Indians came down, 
and, with every possible demonstration of joy, carried away all I had sent 
them into the woods."* Captain Wallis remained there at anchor more 
than a month after this, on the best possible terms with the natives, buying 
largely of provisions but no dogs, of which animal he scarcely again writes. 
And Captain Cook (whom I have quoted +) states that after their great 
falling-out with that people, the chief lady (Operea), in sending him the 
present by way of reconciliation, included in it a S CRM is also the 
first time Cook mentions the animal. 
The other circumstance I have alluded to is mentioned by Mr. Banks 
in Cook's first voyage to Tahiti, who saw within the saered marae (or paved . 
court of their great temple) “several small stages which seemed to be a 
kind of altar, as upon these are placed provisions of all kinds as offerings 
to their gods * * * and we found here the skulls of above fifty hogs, 
besides the skulls of a great number of dogs." 
And while such sacrifices were rare, if not unknown, in New Zealand 
(where hogs were not and dogs but few), still we may see a remnant of 
them in a dog having always to be killed on great ceremonial observances 
as a sacred food for the officiating priest or tohunga. 
A few named dogs take a prominent place in the very dawnings of 
history among the New Zealanders—before they even left Hawaiki— 
whether that place be a reality or a myth. Itis related in their earliest 
legends that a dog belonging to a great chief named Houmaitawhiti, who 
lived at Hawaiki, having committed some trifling error, was killed and 
eaten by another chief of that place named Toitehuatahi. On the dog, 
whose name was Potakatawhiti, being missed by its owner, his sons went 
seeking the animal in the several villages in the neighbourhood, calling it, 
in their way, * Moi, moi." On their seeking it in the pa of Toitehuatahi, 
the dog, hearing their eall, responded from within the stomach of Toi, ** 4u, 
* Cook's Voyages : first voyage, vol. L, p. 451. + Vide ante. 
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