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an unbroken filly. Each of them wore a petticoat, under which 

 was a girdle made of the blades of highly-perfumed grass." 



At another point they set up the armorer's forge, to repair 

 the braces of the tiller. They here met an old man who insisted 

 on showing them the military exercises of the country, with a 

 lance twelve feet long, and a battle-axe made of bone and called 

 a patoo-patoo. An upright stake was made to represent the 

 enemy, upon which he advanced with great fury : when he was 

 supposed to have pierced the adversary, he split his skull with his 

 axe. From this final act it was inferred that in the battles of 

 this country there was no quarter. It was also ascertained that 

 cannibalism was a constant and favorite practice. They here 

 saw the largest canoe they had yet met with. She was sixty- 

 eight feet and a half long, five broad, and three deep : she had 

 a sharp keel, consisting of three trunks of trees hollowed out : the 



A NEW ZEALAND CANOE. 



side-planks were sixty-two feet long in one piece, and quite elabo- 

 rately carved in bas-relief: the figure-head was also a master- 

 piece of sculpture. 



The expedition had thus far been sailing to the southward. 

 Dissatisfied with the results, and finding it difficult to procure 

 water in sufficient quantities, Cook put about, determining to fol- 

 low the coast to the northward. He named a promontory in the 

 neighborhood Cape Turnagain. Another promontory, more to 



