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called emigrants were not many in number; that they soon fell out among 
themselves, went to war with each other, and slew several where they had 
landed in the Bay of Plenty; and that of the remainder many went inland, 
of the opinion formed by the early navigators, is the statements they give, 
especially Cook, of the innumerable number of canoes, of the number of 
Capes Palliser and Kidnappers, and Capes Rodney and Brett, and Cape 
Pococke and the North Cape, which then abounded with pas (forts and 
villages), and swarmed with people, but which are now, and have been for 
many years, wholly uninhabited. All which, it is believed, silently indicate 
the ancient settlement of the race, especially when their warlike character 
and habit are also considered. 
(4.) Habits, customs, manufactures, ornaments, and tattooing.— Very many 
of the habits and customs of the New Zealanders, indeed nearly all, are 
widely different from those of other Polynesian islanders, though belonging 
to the same race. So also their manufactures, whether the more useful and 
durable, as canoes, houses, implements of wood, &e., or the many varied 
textile ones, for clothing and daily use; all differed, and that greatly. And 
when their immense variety, with their woven and dyed ornamental patterns, 
and their skill in manufacturing, is also considered, how long a time would 
it not require for them to lose all the old knowledge (which they had brought 
with them) and to gain the new, and also to use it successfully upon entirely 
new materials? For not only is the New Zealand flax plant (Phormium) 
not found in the other islands, but also no like fibrous substitute. And that 
by a people so prone to copy, and so exceedingly tenacious of innovation ;— 
by a people, too, who, accordi g to their own traditions and legends, and the 
sad experience of the early navigators, were so prone to war and murder. 
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