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also a fair riding-road from Coromandel. The coast-line i& 

 broken up into innumerable picturesque headlands and is- 

 lands, with many little bays of glistening white sand ensconced 

 between, upon which the long ocean swell gently rises and 

 falls. On the north side, especially when the pohutukawa is- 

 in bloom, the blaze of crimson fringing the beach makes a 

 picture long to be remembered by any that have seen it. 

 Other points of interest are the hot springs which come up in 

 the sand, below high-water mark, a few miles from the south 

 head of the bay. The wreck of H.M.S. "Buffalo" lies just 

 to the north of the entrance of the Whitianga Eiver. The 

 vessel was wrecked in 1836, and in 1897 the ribs w T ere just 

 awash at dead low water, spring tides. 



From Mercury Bay the "Endeavour" proceeded round 

 Cape Colville, and, after sailing up the Hauraki Gulf, came to 

 anchor a few miles from the present Thames Township. I 

 had intended dealing shortly with Captain Cook's trip up the 

 Thames Eiver, but Mr. E. G. Moss, of Paeroa, who is also an 

 enthusiastic admirer of our hero, tells me that he has been 

 collecting data and photographs for some time with a view of 

 writing a paper on that subject, so that I feel that I would 

 be " jumping his claim if I followed the foot-tracks of the 

 great navigator any further. 



Art. IV. — Folloiving the Tracks of Captain Cook. 

 By Eussell Duncan. 



[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 1st December 



1902.] 



Plates IV.-VII. 

 Being greatly interested in the voyages of Captain Cook to 

 New Zealand, and having visited some of the places on our 

 shores touched at by him, I propose to tell you my im- 

 pressions of these places, and to show on the screen photo- 

 graphs which I have taken. The localities which I have 

 made it my pleasure to visit have been some of the actual 

 landing-places of the great navigator, and my object in so 

 doing was to see for myself how these scenes compare now 

 with the descriptions given of them by Cook and his scientific 

 companions. 



You are no doubt well aware that Cook made three 

 voyages from England to the Pacific Ocean. During these 

 three voyages he visited New Zealand no less than five 

 times, and landed at nine different places. It was on his 

 first voyage, however, ranking as lieutenant in command of 



