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and some of the crew, suffered agonies from 
eating poisonous fish. Of the dogs George For- 
ster writes ( 1777, II: 244), "One of these poor 
creatures was doomed to be a martyr, being 
the same upon which we tried the Mallicollese 
arrows; however he luckily got the better of 
both these attacks, and was brought to England.” 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
Artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth 
centuries have depicted island dogs. The draw- 
ings from the nineteenth century, however, 
usually show dogs that are obviously European 
or mixed European and native. Even in the 
earlier drawings one must consider the possibil- 
ity that a pet of foreign origin from the Eu- 
ropean ships has got into the scene. Most often 
the artists show the dogs in canoes, like family 
pets determined to go for a ride. 
Two illustrations by Sydney Parkinson, artist 
on Cook’s first expedition, show dogs in canoes 
in the Society Islands. One ( Hawkesworth, 
1773, II: pi. 3) is "A view in the island of 
Ulietea with double canoe and a boathouse,” 
and shows a dog sitting in a canoe at Ulietea 
(Raiatea) which is also transporting a horned 
cow from the European ship. Another sketch 
(Hawkesworth, 1773, II: pi. 4) is "A view of 
the island of Otaheite with several vessels of 
that island”; and shows a dog sitting contentedly 
by a youth with a long-poled net. 
Two unidentified photostats at Bishop Mu- 
seum of sketches of canoe scenes in the Society 
Islands, obviously of the eighteenth century, 
and done by British artists, to judge from the 
titles, do not appear in any published collections 
of illustrations that accompany the voyages. 
Dogs appear in the scenes. One scene, with the 
title "Double Canoes. Tipaerua,” probably writ- 
ten in by the artist, clearly shows a dog in one 
of the canoes. The other scene with the title 
"Canoe of Ulietea,” also written in by the artist, 
shows a child on the deck of a double canoe 
clasping a dog with a very pointed muzzle. The 
original drawings, I later learned, are at the 
British Museum, from which I then obtained 
fine photographs of the two drawings and of 
the particular sections showing the dogs. The 
Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts states 
"that the information given by the catalogue 
of additions is as follows: 'A collection of draw- 
ings by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson and J. F. Miller, 
made in the countries visited by Captain Cook 
in his first voyage (1768-71), also of prints 
published in John Hawksworth’s Voyages of 
Biron, Wallis and Cook, 1773, as well as in 
Cook’s second and third voyages ( 1762-5, 
1776-80).’” Since to my knowledge the draw- 
ings do not appear in any of the published 
accounts, I am inclined to believe that they were 
made by one of the three artists named above 
in the countries visited by Cook on his first 
voyage in 1768-1771. In other words, they prob- 
ably belong to the same series as the two named 
above which Hawkesworth used in writing up 
the account of Cook’s first voyage. 
Published plates by John Webber, artist on 
Cook’s third expedition, also depict dogs. One 
scene (Cook, 1784: Atlas, pi. 14) of "The re- 
ception of Captain Cook in Hapaee,” Hapai, 
Tonga, shows a lean dog at the lower right of 
the picture. Another scene (Cook, 1784: Atlas, 
pi. 31 ) is "A view of Huaheine,” Society Islands, 
and shows a man kneeling on the deck of a 
double canoe near the boathouse and perhaps 
holding still the dog in front of him so that 
the artist can sketch it. 
Louis Choris ( 1822), in a drawing owned by 
the Honolulu Academy of Arts and previously 
unpublished (Bishop Museum Negative 
20599), shows a Hawaiian scene with two dogs 
in the foreground. The larger dog because of its 
size and flopping ears does not fit the customary 
description of the native dog; the smaller dog 
Fig. 2. Detail of dog shown in double canoe in 
Figure 1 at Raiatea, Society Islands. 
