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Title: Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Royal Society of New Zealand
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z. : The Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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, or principal chief of the district, was Te Eatu. This manwas chief of the Eongowhakaata tribe, and must have possessedgreat influence; for afterwards, when coasting along the Bayof Plenty, Cook says, As far as we had yet coasted thiscountry, from Cape Turnagain, the people acknowledged onechief, whom they called Te Eatu, and to whose residence theypointed in a direction that we thought to be very far inland,but afterwards found to be otherwise. There are no directdescendants of Te Eatu now living, but the family is repre-sented by the descendants of his brothers. The Maori tradi-tion also mentions a red garment as having been laid upon thebody of Te Eakau, to which they gave the name of Te Hinu oTuhura. The next morning, Cook says, Wednesday, 11th, atsix oclock, we weighed and stood away from this unfortunateand inhospitable place, to which I gave the name of PovertyBay, and which by the natives is called Te Oneroa, or Long fnmstfijtfmt* 11m g^ateijit ^ttsiitote, Vol. xxi. pi. xxxm.
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To Musirate J&ber TyArcTid? W.l.miliums. Williams.—On Cooks Visit to Poverty Bay. 395 Sand, as it did not afford us a single article that we wanted,except a little wood. . . . The south-west point of thebay I named Young Nicks Head, after Nicholas Young, theboy who first saw the land. Thus ended Cooks only visit tothis part of New Zealand; but as the ship lay becalmed in theafternoon, a little to the south of Young Nicks Head, severalcanoes put off, and one, which had followed the ship out ofPoverty Bay, came directly alongside. With a little persua-sion the four men who formed the crew (one of whom wasrecognised as one of the hostile party encountered on the Mon-day) were induced to come on board the ship. Their examplewas shortly afterwards followed by the rest, and there weresoon around the ship no less than seven canoes and about fiftymen. About an hour before sunset the canoes all moved off,but three of the men were left on board, and were trans-shipped on the following mor

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