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now, when Captain Cook again revisited his old anchorage at Queen 

 Charlotte Sound, where he was well known, and the natives, coming from 

 all parts in their canoes to see him, took with them all their domestic dogs, 

 simply because they could not possibly leave them at home ; and hence, on 

 Mr. Anderson seeing so many dogs with them in their canoes, he reasonably 

 concluded there must be plenty more at home. This trait in then character, 

 of always takuig with them in their canoes their live domestic stock, has 

 come down to comparatively modern times. I have seen plenty of it ! 



Dr. Sparrman, the Swedish naturalist (who, I think, was ■ a better 

 zoologist than the two Forsters, judging from what he has published in 

 English of his travels and discoveries in Africa), who also accompanied 

 Cook in his second voyage, has unfortunately not given ns any particulars 

 of this voyage to the South Seas, although I believe such were published by 

 him at Stockholm in his own language — at least he intimates as much in 

 his "gVoyages."* If so, perhaps some scientific gentleman of that country 

 may ere long inform the colony of New Zealand of it. 



Further : It maybe also well to see to what uses the New Zealanders put 

 then dogs besides that of using them for food. Captain Cook gives us very 

 little information under this head, contenting himself with saying, (in his 

 First Voyage) " that the people of Tolago Bay adorn their garments with the 

 skins of their dogs, as we do ours with fars and ermine " — and, that 

 " some others whom he fell in with in their canoes near Cape Brett, had 

 weapons of stone and whalebone, and also the ribs of a whale carved, and 

 adorned with tufts of dog's hair." Mr. Anderson also briefly says, " their 

 work (of clothing flax-mats) is often ornamented with pieces of dog-skin ; 

 sometimes they cover then flax-mat with dog-skin, and that alone we have 

 seen worn as a covering." But, while Cook and Banks and Solander and 

 Anderson are so provokingiy concise, Parkinson and the two Forsters are 

 much more profuse and clear. 



Sydney Parkinson informs us early, like a true artist noticing the 

 beautiful, that the first natives they saw in six canoes on leaving Poverty 

 Bay "had garments wrapped about them made of a silky flax, each corner 

 being ornamented with a piece of dog-skin." And a little further on in his 

 journal (in narrating that memorable adventure here in our waters of 

 Hawke Bay, in which the New Zealanders kidnapped Tupaea's lad, 

 Taiota, which circumstance also gave the name to our southern cape), 

 Parkinson says : — " An old man who sat in the stern" (of that kidnapping 

 canoe) " had on a garment of some beast's skin, with long hair, dark brown 

 and white border, which we would have purchased but they were not willing 

 to part with anything." And again, shortly after, while at Mercury Bay, 



* 2 vols. 410., London, 1786. 



