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Identifier: newzealandinevol00scho (find matches)
Title: New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Scholefield, G. H. (Guy Hardy), 1877-1963 Reeves, William Pember, 1857-1932
Subjects: New Zealand -- Economic conditions New Zealand -- Politics and government New Zealand -- History
Publisher: London, Leipsic : T. F. Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ame for which the British race has been mostuniversally revered throughout the Pacific is that ofCaptain James Cook, whose three voyages of discoveryput the coping-stone to the story of British maritimeenterprise. The high personal qualities, the humanityand integrity of the man himself, were no less remarkablethan the unfailing courage and the consistent thorough-ness of his work. On October 7, 1769, Cook firstsighted New Zealand. Nicholas Young, the ships boyafter whom Young Nicks Head was named, was thefirst white man to see New Zealand from the eastward.Cook, too, more practised than Tasman in intercoursewith native races, could not avoid a conflict with thebarbarous inhabitants. The safety of his own men hadperforce to override his reluctance to shed blood on hisfirst meeting with the Maori, and on three successivedays the Englishmen fired on small parties of the natives,each time with some casualties. For the last conflict hehad not the same justification, and Cook always looked
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THE FIGHT FOR SOVEREIGNTY 17 back on the incident with keen regret. Observing twocanoes crossing the bay (which he named Poverty Bayon account of his faikire to obtain supplies), he deter-mined to intercept them and win the goodwill of thenatives by means of presents. The Maori did not stopwhen called upon, and replied to a musket-shot whichwas iircd over them by seizing their weapons and fiercelyattacking one of the boats. In the combat several ofthem were killed, but some who jumped overboard werecaptured and well treated. In his subsequent intercoursewith the natives Cook was fortunate enough to avoidfurther conflict. He observed a transit of Mercury at theBay so called (in the Coromandel Peninsula), and there,on November 15, 1769, he took possession of the NorthIsland of New Zealand for King George III. Just a month later Cook missed by the merest chancemeeting one of the most famous of the French navi-gators, M. de Surville. The St. Jeati Baptiste first sightedNew Zealand on Dece

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