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Line 66: === Adapting to local conditions === [[File:Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1901) (14577912959).jpg\|thumb\|Moriori designs carved into trees and rock]] The Chathams are colder and less hospitable than the land the original settlers left behind, and although abundant in resources, these were different from those available where they had come from. The Chathams proved unsuitable for the cultivation of most crops known to Polynesians, and the Moriori adopted a [[hunter-gatherer]] lifestyle. Food was almost entirely marine-sourced — protein and fat from fish, [[fur seal]]s, and the fatty young of sea birds.{{cn\|date=July 2024}} The islands supported about 2,000 people.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia\|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/graph/1691/moriori-population-of-the-chatham-islands-1800-1920\|title=Moriori population of the Chatham Islands, 1800–1920\|encyclopedia=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand\|first1=Denise\|last1=Davis\|first2=Māui\|last2=Solomon\|name-list-style=amp\|date=3 March 2017\|access-date=30 March 2017\|archive-date=31 March 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331114847/http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/graph/1691/moriori-population-of-the-chatham-islands-1800-1920\|url-status=live}}</ref> This ~~lifestyle~~primitive existence is confirmed by early European accounts, with one recording that: {{blockquote\|"They were idle in the extreme, only seeking food when pressed by hunger, and depending mostly on what was cast ashore by the sea, a stranded whale, grampus, or porpoise being an especial delicacy, as was also a seal or mass of whale blubber, which being often cast ashore was looked upon as the gift of a good spirit who supplied their wants."<ref>{{cite journal \|author1=E.A. Welch \|author2=J. Barnard Davis \|title=An Account of the Chatham Islands, Their Discovery, Inhabitants, Conquest by the Maories, and the Fate of the Aborigines \|journal=Journal of the Anthropological Society of London \|date=1871 \|volume=8 \|page=98 \|url=https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.2307%252F30069857.zip&file=10.2307%252F3025175.pdf \|publisher=Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland}}</ref>}}

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