The dramatic exploits that made Cook famous all appeared in his first visit to New Zealand--superb seamanship in storms at sea, unrivalled skill in cartography, humanity in meeting the Maoris, finding precise longitude, and not least, keeping his sailors healthy.From Richard Aulie's study of the first voyage.
Passage to "Staeten Landt"
The Tasman Voyage
Storm at Sea
Along the East Coast
The Landing at Poverty Bay
Taking Hostages
"Black be the Mark for it"
Among the Canoes
Anaura Bay
Tolaga Bay
The Bay of Plenty
Mercury Bay
The River Thames
The Bay of Islands
Cape Maria van Diemen
Ship Cove
Around South Island
Epilogue
Footnotes
To the south, in dark time past, did sail seafarers in canoes of the great fleet, did the children of Tane, leaving far behind the many isl'd Hawaiki. To the sea-lashed Te Ika a Maui they came, to the land of the long white cloud, where hangs the sky far below the guiding star.1