Barstow.—Stray Thoughts on Mahori and Maori Migrations. 248 
200 buccaneers, amongst whom he was, went in 1688 from the coast north 
of Panama to the isles of Juan Fernandez in native “ pirogues " or canoes, 
and returned again thence, attacking, unsuccessfully, Arica on the way. 
The distance from Panama to Juan Fernandez is fully as great as from 
Callao to the Marquesas. 
If it is merely an accidental coincidence that somewhere about the same 
period one people entirely disappeared from the shores of Peru, and that 
another people, arriving from the opposite side of the world, built on the 
islands to leeward of the Peruvian coast, places of worship in exact re- 
semblance of those erected by the missing nation, and adopted similar 
human sacrifices; the coincidence, if coincidence only it be, is most wonder- 
fal.* 
Art. XX.—On the Remains of a Dog found by Capt. Rowan near White Cliffs, 
Taranaki. By Dr. Hector. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 9th December, 1876.] 
Tur universal spread of the dog throughout all parts of the world that 
have at any time been inhabited by man is one of the most interest- 
ing facts in the natural history of our race. From the earliest times 
man has made the dog his companion and servant, and as a consequence 
of this long continued culture and control, the qualities and capabilities of 
the dog have been developed not only in an extraordinary degree, as com- 
pared with any other animal, but also in a most diverse manner, the 
diversity depending to some extent on the habits and necessities of the 
section of the human race that developed the breed. 
The remains of dogs are of frequent occurrence among the bones found 
in the old Maori umus, and the statement by Captain Cook, as well as the 
explicit traditions of the Natives, and even the reports of early settlers, 
prove that the Maori had a domesticated dog before the arrival of the white 
race. 
A few dogs reported to be of this primitive breed were known within 
the last 20 years, and are said to have beeen remarkable for their docility 
and sagacity. Whether there was also a distinet breed of wild dog in New 
Zealand is not stated in any work I have been able to refer to, but it is 
* Compare Cook's account of the human sacrifice at Tahiti and those mentioned by 
Veytia, Torquemada, ete., among the Aztecs. 
