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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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e. I feel assured from the many reportsI received from the Natives that a species of Struthio still exists in thatinteresting land in parts which, perhaps, have never yet been trodden byman. Traditions are current among the elder Natives of atuas coveredwith hair, in the form of birds, having waylaid Native travellers among theforest wilds, vanquishing them with an overpowering strength, killing anddevouring. The traditions are reported with an air of belief that carries Hill.—The Moa—Legendary, Historical, and Geological. 331 AtOA REMAINS, ETC.:— \..# •-•-•-.^, ^^ Footprints. * ~*~*7*-*—-•-?-._. «nf • ® Remains in caves. C°°o0o * % *•* $■** = Remains in swamps. °°»o0„ *•••? f*- ^-—r^T^-**~*N. O O Bones or shells in open country or shingle drift. °°000 TRACKS.— ,_ .•-•-«-• Rev. W. Williams, 1854 •—— — — Polacks trading track, 1834-7 • •••••• Rev. W. Williams and Colenso, 1837-8 ioooooco Colenso, 1841-2 Tcutranga
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332 Transactions. conviction to the younger Natives, who take great delight in the marvellousand the improbable. Polack makes no mention of the word nioa inhis reference to fossil ossifications of a bird belonging to the genusStruthio, and it is strange that no reference occurs from the time when themissionaries reached the country, in 1814, up to the time when the Rev.William Williams and Mr. William Colenso took a holiday trip from theBay of Islands along the East Coast, following the completion, printing,and publication of the New Testament in December, 1837. Bishop Williams, of Napier, informs me in a letter that the Rev. WilliamWilliams first visited the East Coast to the south of East Cape in the year1834. This being so, it is possible that he may have met Polack at TolagoBay or elsewhere along the coast, and that he then heard of the fossi ossifi-cations ; but I can find no reference to this in any publication. Colensowas a born naturalist, and this fact may have suggested to t

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