The potatoes were cultivated with care and success.

One tribe had sufficient self-control not to eat any for three years; then they had abundance.

Gradually the potato superseded amongst them the taro and fern-root, and even to some extent the kumara.

The cabbages and turnips were allowed to run wild, and in that state were still found flourishing fifty years afterwards.

The Maoris of Poverty Bay had a story that Cook gave to one of their chiefs a musket with a supply of powder and lead.