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Some account of New Zealand

kind but we were soon undeceivd & found upon enquiry that they were acquainted with no animal that had fur or long hair but their own dogs  Some there were who had these dresses ornamented with feathers & one who had an intire dress of the red feathers of Red Parrots  but these were not common

the men always wore short beards & tied their hair in a small knot on the top of their heads into which they stuck sticking into into it a kind of Comb & at the top two or 3 white feathers  about their Waists was tied a belt from which hung a string which was tied round the preputium & in this seemd to consist most or all of their decency in that particular  for when that was tied they often exposd by different motions every part of their bodies to our view & indeed not seldom threw off all other dress but shewd visible reluctance & signs of shame when we desird them to untie it from a curiosity to see the manner in which it was tied - the first man we saw when we went ashore at Poverty bay who was killd by one of our people had his dress tied on exactly in the same manner as is represented in Mr Dalrymples account of Tasmans Voyage  in a plat which I beleive is copied

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