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BONE OF A GIGANTIC BIRD 
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New Zealanders, which he had also broueht from 
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the island, and still seemed to attach so much 
value to the unpromising fragment, that I con- 
sented, being at the time specially engaged, to 
try to make out the bone, if he would leave it 
with me and call for it the next day. 
‘ As soon as I was at leisure I took the bone 
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that the specimen had not the structure of a bone 
of such a bird of flight ; that it was a marrow- 
bone, like those brought to table wrapped in a 
napkin. To further questions as to its locality, 
the vendor replied by showing, amongst other 
evidences, a jadestone weapon peculiar to the 
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