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au," although the enraged chief kept his own hand tightly on his mouth, so 
that the dog's cry should not be heard by that outlet. The young men, 
however, hearing it, returned to their father and told him of it, and soon 
reprisals began, and a desolating war followed, which ended in a migration 
to New Zealand! 
Another famed dog was in the canoe of another lot of emigrants from 
Hawaiki, led by the chief Manaia. On its way to New Zealand, the dog, 
scenting the land before it could be seen, and a dead whale that had been 
cast on shore, sprang overboard, and swam howling towards the land; the 
canoe followed all that evening and night, guided only by the cries of the 
dog, and so not only reached the land in safety, but also came in for a 
feast on the stranded whale,—and more good things afterwards. 
Another strange dog legend is told of Irawaru, who was brother-in-law 
to the famed demigod Maui—the hero who, among several other equally 
strange adventures, fished up the North Island of New Zealand, and 
caused the sun to travel more reasonably through space for the benefit of 
man. ‘The story is too long to relate here, but I may just say that Irawaru 
had displeased Maui, who, getting him unsuspectingly into his power, 
pulled his ears upwards and his back-bone out, so as to form a tail, and 
then transformed him into a dog!  Cruelly sending his sister, on her 
enquiring after her husband in the evening, in ignorance of what had 
happened, to call him by the usual dog-call of ** Moi, moi," which the poor 
newly-metamorphosed dog plaintively answered; on which the wife com- 
mitted suicide by throwing herself into the sea. Hence, it is that Irawaru 
is said to be the father or precursor of all dogs. 
In conclusion, I will merely add that it is my conviction that, hereafter, 
several of these things I have here brought forward will prove to be of 
service, trifling as some of them may at first sight appear to be, for, apart 
from the few concluding myths and legends, they are all facts. Facts, 
realities, respecting the ancient New Zealand dog (wehave no more !). And 
these may tend towards elucidating the origin of the New Zealanders. And 
let it never be forgotten, particularly by such an institution as ours, that 
faets, faithfully recorded faets, however small in themselves, are not only 
stubborn things, but are sure to become useful. Science is still seeking to 
know of the origin of the New Zealanders, and of their so-called migrations 
hither; and here, in much of what I have compiled and written and laid 
before you is food for the reflective mind ; indieations which may yet prove 
of service. Further: it has often been thoughtlessly said, that because (in 
some parts of the north of this island) the dog was also called pero and 
peropero* by the natives, therefore it was introduced into this country by 
c * The New Zealanders have several common names for the dog, as kararehe, kirehe, 
|. kuri, pero, peropero, pape, and moi—though this last word is more properly the call for a 
