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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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tupid birds, that couldeasily fall a prey to man. This fact accounts for their extinction in thefirst two or three centuries of the presence of the Maoris in ISTew Zea-land. It is fortunate that their skeletons have been preserved in theearth, so that we can know positively that such great birds existed. How do you know the Maoris lived upon these birds ? Partly through their traditions, and partly from the discovery ofmany of the bones of the Moa in the ovens and in the heaps of rubbisharound the ruins of ancient villages. The natives devoured any birdsthey could catch; parrots, pigeons, parson-birds, anything and every-thing edible was legitimate food. Those that dwelt on the coast livedchiefly on a fish diet, and those in the interior made annual or morefrequent migrations to the sea-side for purposes of fishing. The riversabound in eels, and they grow to an enormous size; I have seen eelsweighing fifty pounds each, and have heard of larger ones. THE GREATEST BIRD IN THE WORLD. 209
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SKELETON OF THE EXTINCT MOA (DIXORXIS). 14 210 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. Frank asked what the clothing of the natives was made of beforethe Europeans came to the country. It was made from the fibre of the flax, was the reply. Thereare several kinds of flax, and it grows everywhere and near every vil-lage. Not only did it supply the material for garments, but for nets.

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