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shot strike in and against the prow, but what further happened 

 is unknown to us, as after getting this shot they returned 

 speedily to laud, two of them setting up sails fashioned like 

 tinganghs [a Malay boat : our " dingy " is derived from this] . 

 They remained quiet alongshore without visiting us again. 

 About noon the master, Gerrit Jansz, and Sr. Gilsemans again 

 came on board us. We sent also for their chief mate, when 

 we called the council, and resolved as follows : That the de- 

 testable deed of these natives that morning on four of the 

 Zeehaen's men should teach us to hold the inhabitants of 

 this land as enemies ; that we shall therefore keep easterly 

 along the shore, following the coast-line, to see if we can find a 

 convenient spot to obtain water and refreshments, as is further 

 mentioned in the resolutions. At this place of murderers (to 

 which, moreover, w-e have given the name of Murderers' Bay) 

 we lay anchored in south latitude 40° 50', longitude 191° 30'. 

 We steered our course from here east-north-east. At noon 

 reckoned latitude 40° 57', longitude 191° 41'. Held a southerly 

 course, and sailed two miles. ,In the afternoon the wind was 

 from west-north-west. We then steered, on the advice of 

 our steersmen, and our approbation, north-east by north. At 

 night we went on, as the weather was fine ; but about an 

 hour after midnight we had soundings in 25 to 26 

 fathoms ; hard, sandy ground. Soon after the wind was 

 north-west. Had soundings in 15 fathoms. We imme- 

 diately steered our course west, in the contrary direction from 

 that by which we had entered, awaiting the day. Var., 9° 30' 

 north-easterly. This is the second land sailed about and dis- 

 covered by us. We have given it the name of Statenlandt, in 

 honour of their High Mightinesses the States-General. Thus 

 it is possible that this land is part of the great Statelandt, but 

 it is uncertain. This same land seems to be a very fine coun- 

 try, and we trust that it is part of the great coast of the un- 

 known Zuytlandt (South Land). We have given this course 

 the name of Abel Tasman course, because he is the first to 

 navigate it. 



[In this place, in Tasman's Journal, are found the drawings 

 of the plates which Valentijn has given us on pp. 49, &c., 

 under No. 6F, No. 5E, No. 5Eb, and No. 7G. The plate 

 No. 6F is not so complete as that of the manuscript journal. 

 The reader, of course, knows that the name of Staten-land 

 has since been changed to that of New Zealand, and it con- 

 sists of two large islands, which are separated by a strait or 

 passage now named Cook Strait. It was in the opening to the 

 westerly entrance of this strait that Tasman lay anchored 

 with his two ships when the New-Zealanders, without the 

 slightest warning, fell upon his shallops, wherefore in the 

 account he named that part Murderers' Bay. That portion 



