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nothing about them, so he gave the natives another boar and sow, 

 with instructions not to kill them. It is probable that these original 

 pigs were the ancestors of the long-nosed wild pigs which afterwards 

 became so common in the South Island. 



Cook also landed two goats, a male and a female, on the east 

 side of the Sound, but there is reason to believe that the natives 

 killed them. He gave them another pair in 1777, and it is popularly 

 believed that most of the wild goats found in the South Island in the 

 early days of settlen\ent are descended from these. 



In West Bay, Cobk liberated some fowls, and though he could 

 not find any trace of them when he visited the spot in October, 1774, 

 yet in his later visit in February, 1777, he stated that "all the natives 

 whom I conversed with agreed that poultry are now to be met with 

 wild in the woods behind Ship Cove ; and I was afterwards informed 

 by the two youths who went with us, that Tuitou, a popular chief 

 amongst them, had a great many cocks and hens in his separate 

 possession." 



During this stay of two months, ground was cleared at more than 

 one spot, and numerous kinds of vegetable seeds were sown, including 

 turnip, cabbage, white mustard, radish, purslane, peas, beans, kidney 

 beans, parsley, carrot, parsnip, onion and leek: potatoes also were 

 planted. Of these, cabbage, and apparently also turnip, onion and 

 leek succeeded in establishing themselves ; radishes seeded freely, but 

 the peas, beans and kidney beans were eaten by rats. It is more than 

 probable that some European weeds of cultivation were introduced 

 at the same time. 



On 2nd November when near Cape Kidnappers, Cook gave some 

 pigs and fowls to natives who came off in a canoe, the first intro- 

 duction of these two kinds to the North Island. On the following 

 day he once more entered Queen Charlotte Sound, and waited till 

 the 25th for his consort, but as she had not arrived by that time, 

 he left for a cruise in the Antarctic Ocean. The 'Adventure ' arrived 

 in the Sound five days later, and remained over three weeks, during 

 which time the unfortunate massacre of ten of her crew took place. 

 After a long cruise in the Antarctic and Pacific Oceans, Cook returned 

 to Queen Charlotte Sound on 19th October, 1774, and finally left 

 for England on loth November. 



The important thing about this voyage, from our present point 

 of view, is that Cook brought with him various animals and plants 

 for the express purpose of introducing them, having experienced on 

 his first voyage the lack of fresh food in the country, beyond that 

 which the natives were able to supply them with. To this voyage we 

 can assign the introduction and subsequent naturalisation of the pig 



