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he says: — "In one of the canoes (which came from some distance to the 

 ship) there was a very handsome young man, of whom I hought some 

 things ; he seemed by the variety of his garments, which he sold one after 

 another till he had but one left, to be a person of distinction among them ; 

 his last garment was an ujDper one, made of white and black dog-skin, which 

 one of the lieutenants would have purchased, and offered him a large piece 

 of cloth for it, which he swung down the stern by a rope into the canoe ; 

 but as soon as the young man had taken it, his companions paddled away 

 as fast as possible, shouting and brandishing their weapons as if they had 

 made a great prize ; and, being ignorant of the power of our weapons, 

 thought to have carried it off securely; but a musket was fired at them 

 from the stern of the ship ; the young man fell down immediately, and, it 

 IS probable, was mortally wounded, as we did not see him rise again. 

 What a severe punishment of a crime committed, perhaps, ignorantly ! 

 The name of this uufurtunate young man, we afterwards learned, was Te 

 Eiunui." So again, while at the Bay of Islands (then- next anchorage), he 

 says ; — " A canoe came into the bay that had eighty people in her, most of 

 whom paddled; the chiefs wore garments of dog-skins, and were very much 

 tattooed. * * :'■ We saw many plantations of the^ kumera, and some of 

 the ante, or cloth trees " (Moms papi/riferus). And in the fifteenth plate of 

 his journal he gives "a New Zealand warrior in his proper dress ;" in which 

 his clothing-mat is a fine one, made of cloth woven from New Zealand flax 

 (Phorinium) within, and with the skins of black and white dogs alternately 

 placed, chequer-fashion, without. Also, in Plate XVIII., the chiefs in the 

 war-canoe are represented as so dressed; and in that ever admirable plate 

 of a war canoe fully manned, with rowers x^addling* (also taken by our 

 artist), the chiefs are dressed in similar garments. 



G. Forster, writing of the New Zealanders whom he saw at Queen 

 Charlotte Sound (in Cook Straits), says: — "The form and colom' of these 

 peojole was almost entirely the same as that of the Dusky Bay people ; their 

 dress was likewise made in the same manner of the flax-plant, but never 

 interwoven with feathers, in lieu of which they had bits of dog-skin at the 

 four corners of their cloaks, which the others vv^ere not fortunate enough 

 to possess." Again he says : — " They sold us an apron, made of then- close- 

 wrought cloth, covered with red feathers, faced with white dog-skin, and 

 ornamented with pieces of the ear-shell, which is said to be worn by the 

 women in their dances." And, shortly afterwards, speaking of a large 

 canoe of strangers which came up to the ship, he says : — " Two people of a 

 fine stature, one at the stern and another about the middle of the canoe, 

 stood upright ; the former had a perfect black cloak of the close-wrought 



* Cook's Voyages : first voyage, vol. III., Plate XYI. 



