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young English surveyor, 
digging. My services being required on the goldfields and coal- 
fields of the district I could not indulge in the pleasure , of form- 
ing one of the party of the Moa diggers. In the town of Colling- 
wood , we had appointed a rendezvous after three days; at the 
expiration of which my friends came in triumphant , conducting 
oxen, decked with flowers and heavily laden with Moa bones, 
amid the concurse of the whole 
Mr. Maling , 
to do their best for Moa 
population of 
They occur in a 
lgwood. Dr. 
tertiary lime- 
Ilaast had scoured three caves, 
stone on the right bank of 
the Aorere river, about 
eight miles above its mouth 
near Washbourne Flat, a 
small gold-digger colony. 
In the northern-most cave, 
Stafford’s Cave , — through 
which a rivulet flows, form- 
ing at its outlet the Doc- 
tor’s Creek , — nothing was 
found. The more surpris- 
ing was the result of the 
diggings in the other two 
caves , which Haast named 
Hochstetter’s Cave (the same, that I had visited myself) and Moa 
Cave. The bones lay partly quite on the surface , covered only by 
a few inches of loam, partly under stalactite incrustations. Very 
remarkable is the fact, established during the diggings in the 
Caves with Moa- bones in the Aorere Valley, 
a. StalFords-Cave ; b. Hochstetter’s Cave; c. Moa- 
Cave; m. places, where Moa-bones were found. 
1 On the damp ceiling of those caves u gIow- 
worms ri are found to live, small grubs, one 
inch in length , enveloped in a slimy mass, 
which radiate from behind a phosphoric light 
similar to our glow-worms. A second tenant 
of the caves is an insect belonging to the 
llomoptera , resembling the Weta, with long- 
feelers, hopping like a locust. 
The Cave glow-worm, 
a. Natural size. b. The phosphorescent 
part magnified. 
