Cook's Descriptions of Places, New Zealand, page 59

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Cook's Description of Places

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lay and call out Haromai hare uta a patoo age that is come here, come a shore with us and we will kill you with our patoo patoo's and at the same time would shake them at us, at times they would dance the war dance, and other times they would _^^{trade with and} talk to us and answer such questons as were put to them with all the Calmness emaginable and then again begin the war dance, shaking their paddles patoo patoo's _^^{&C^a and make strange contorsions} at the same time and as soon as they had worked themselves up to a proper pitch they would begin to attack us with stones and darts and oblige us whether we would or no to fire upon them. Musquetary they never regarded unless they felt the effect but great guns they did because these threw stones farther than they could comprehend After they found that our Arms were so much Superior to theirs and that we took no advantage of that superiority and a little time given them to reflect upon it they ever after were our very good friends and we never had an Instance of their attempting to surprize or cut off any of our people when they were ashore, oppertunities for so doing they must have had at one time or a nother —

It is hard to account for what we have every w[h]ere been told of their eating their enimies kill'd in battle which they most certainly do circumstance enough we have seen to convince of the truth of this, Tupia who holds this custom in great aversion hath very

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