430 Geology of 



1. There existed in quaternary times an autochthone race in New 

 Zealand, having, like the present inhabitants more or less strong 

 affinities with the Melanesian type. 



2. This race hunted and exterminated the ]\Ioa, including in this 

 native word all the different species of the Dinornitliidce. 



3. Banks' Peninsula was at that time either an island, or if already 

 a Peninsula, the drif tsands now fringing the sea shores north of 

 the Peninsula, were in some localities several miles narrower 

 than they are at present. 



4. The quaternary population did not possess a domesticated dog. 



5. A species of feral dog was contemporaneous with the AEoa- 

 hunters, and was killed and eaten by them. Xo gnawed bones 

 of any kind were ever found in the kitchen middens. 



6. The total absence of any bones of Ocydromus Austrcdis (Weka) 

 in the kitchen middens is very striking. 



7. The 3Ioa-hunters used both polished and chipped stone 

 implements. 



S. They cooked their food in the same manner as the Maoris of 



the present day do. 



9. They were not cannibals. 



10. They did not possess implements of greenstone (Xephrite). 



11. There are some native traditions, although of a mythical 

 character, that one or several races inhabited this island before 

 the arrival of the first iinini grants froin Hawaiki, if such an 

 immigration is admitted. 



12. A considerable period of time elapsed, as evidenced by an 

 examination of the deposits in the AEoa-bone Point Cave, and 

 in some other localities, before the shellfish-eating population 

 appeared on the scene. 



13. The kitchen middens of the Shellfish-eaters following a line 

 nearly parallel to the present coast line are also ascribed to 

 have been formed by a somewhat mythical people. 



It will thus be seen, that my former views, published in 1871, when 

 these important ethnological questions were first critically examined 

 by me from a geological point of view, have with one exception been 

 fully confirmed by further more extended researches. This exception 

 is the occurrence m Moa-hunter kitchen middens of polished stone 



