HocKB^.— Abel Tasman and his Journal. 117 



best agencies are, in my opinion, the secondary school and 

 the university. It will be greatly to the advantage of 

 teachers to share in general culture with the members of 

 other professions. In advocating the fullest possible use of 

 the university and the secondary school in the preparation 

 of our teachers I am but complying with the spirit of the 

 Education Act and of the regulations of the Education De- 

 partment. In other countries, too, as we have seen, the 

 secondary schools are likely to be more closely linked to the 

 primary schools in the great work of helping to train the 

 teachers of the latter. 



In addition to adequate general knowledge, the student 

 who aspires to be a teacher must also have practical training 

 under the direction of some highly-qualified man. To effect 

 this there must be estabhshed, as suggested in the regulations 

 of the department, a practising-school, through which all our 

 young teachers should be required to pass. 



Under present conditions we cannot hope for the best 

 results, and our educational system, notwithstanding its 

 many excellencies, is maimed and halting. Some reform is 

 needed ; but reform to be real and lasting must be preceded 

 by thorough knowledge of the weaknesses and deficiencies of 

 existing arrangements, of what is needed, and of what is 

 aimed at in other countries which are far ahead of us iu 

 educational evolution. 



Art. XV. — Abel Tasman and his Journal. 



By Dr. T. M. Hocken, E.L.S. 



{Read before the Otago Institute, 10th September, 1895.] 



Plate I. 



Ix fulfilment of a promise made during the last session of 

 this Institute, I have now the pleasure of laying before 

 you a translation, made by myself and my wife, from the 

 original Dutch of that portion '^of Tasman's Journal relating 

 to the discovery of New Zealand. It is the first time 

 that this has been fully translated.- I shall also give 



* Translated from " Joumaal van de Eeis naar liet onbekende 

 Zuidland, in den Jare 16i2, door Abel Jansz. Tasman, met de Schepen 

 Heemskerck en de Zeehaen. Medegedeeld en met eenige Aanteekeningen 

 voorzien, door Jacob Swart," &c., &c. " Met eene Kaart. Te Amster- 

 dam, bij de Wed. G. Hulst van Keulen, 1860." Tasman's Journal was 

 lost for over two hundred years. When it was found Swart published it 

 m its entirety, as above, in ISGO. A copy of this I possess, and from it 

 my translation has been made. 



