. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. CHAPTER NEW ZEALAND AND NEIGHBOURING ARCHIPELAGOES. HE insular home of the Maori race, which penetrates southwards in the direction of the Antarctic waters, has preserved the name bestowed upon it by its Dutch discoverer. Although the most English of all the Australasian colonies, and often called the " Great Britain of the Antipodes," New Zealand thus still recalls the memory of the great navigator Abel Tasman, who sighted its western shores in 1642, and who at first named it Staaten Land, in the belief that it might possibly be co
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. CHAPTER NEW ZEALAND AND NEIGHBOURING ARCHIPELAGOES. HE insular home of the Maori race, which penetrates southwards in the direction of the Antarctic waters, has preserved the name bestowed upon it by its Dutch discoverer. Although the most English of all the Australasian colonies, and often called the " Great Britain of the Antipodes," New Zealand thus still recalls the memory of the great navigator Abel Tasman, who sighted its western shores in 1642, and who at first named it Staaten Land, in the belief that it might possibly be continuous with the other so-named Dutch territory lying to the south of America. In consequence of a sanguinary encounter with the natives of Massacre Bay at the north-west side of the southern island, Tasman continued his northerly course to the extreme headland of the Archipelago without determining the insular character of the lands discovered by him. This region was not again visited till the year 1769, when Cook touched first at an inlet on the east coast of the northern island, to which he gave the name of Poverty Bay, a name, however, now belied by the magnificent flocks of the surround- ing pastoral district. Cook then coasted the seaboard in a southerly direction, and by circumnavigating the whole group showed that it formed no part of the Austral continent which he had hoped to have at last discovered. He again visited these waters on each of his two subsequent voyages, and altogether passed 327 days in surveying the archipelago, the chart of which, prepared by him, is remarkable for its surprising accuracy, even in details. Henceforth, nothing remained to be done beyond following the sinuosities of the coast-line and explor- ing the interior of the islands. The very year of its re-discovery by Cook, the French navigator Surville landed on the northern island, the shores of which were studied three years later by Marion and Crozet. Marion, with fourteen of his men, was
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