CHAPTER IX 
CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND 
Nov. 22, 1769—Marcu 30, 1770 
Tattowing—Thieving of the natives—Cannibalism—Rapid healing of shot- 
wounds — Native seines— Paper mulberry—Native accounts of their 
ancestors’ expedition to other countries—Three Kings Islands—Christmas 
Day—Albatross swimming—Mount Egmont—Murderers’ Bay—Queen 
Charlotte’s Sound—Threats of natives—Corpses thrown into the sea— 
Cannibalism —Singing-birds— Fishing-nets— Human head preserved— 
Discovery of Cook’s Straits—Native names for New Zealand, and tradi- 
tions—Courteous native family—Leave Queen Charlotte’s Sound—Tides 
—Cape Turnagain—Coast along the southern island—Banks’ Peninsula 
—Appearance of minerals—Mountains along the west coast—Anchor in 
Admiralty Bay. 
26th. Two large canoes came from a distance; the people 
in them were numerous and appeared rich; the canoes were 
well carved and ornamented, and they had with them many 
patoo-patoos of stone and whale-bone which they value very 
much. They had also ribs of whales, of which we had often 
seen imitations in wood carved and ornamented with tufts 
of dog’s hair. The people themselves were browner than 
those to the southward, as indeed they have been ever since 
we came to Opoorage, as this part is called, and they had a 
much larger quantity of amoca or black stains upon their 
bodies and faces. They had almost universally a broad 
spiral on each buttock, and many had their thighs almost 
entirely black, small lines only being left untouched, so that 
they looked like striped breeches. In this particular, I 
mean the use of amoca, almost every tribe seems to have a 
different custom; we have on some days seen canoes where 
