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the " Endeavour," that he paid most attention to New Zea- 

 land. He circumnavigated both Islands, and the chare of 

 New Zealand which he then prepared was not added to by 

 the Admiralty for nearly eighty years. 



On this first voyage Lieutenant Cook landed at eight 

 different places, and in the following order : Poverty Bay, 

 Anaura Bay (called by him "Tegadoo"), Tolaga Bay, 

 Mercury Bay, Thames Estuary, the Bay of Islands, Queen 

 Charlotte Sound, and finally, before leaving, took his sea 

 stock of water from the east side of D'Urville Island, at 

 the entrance to Admiralty Bay. On the second voyage 

 Captain Cook, in command of the " Besolution," was ac- 

 companied by the " Adventure," Captain Furneaux, but on 

 the voyage out the two ships were separated by bad weather 

 near the ice-pack, south of the Cape of Good Hope, where 

 they were exploring. Cook, in the " Besolution," on coming 

 up from the frozen south, made for the south part of New 

 Zealand, and put into Dusky Bay, on the west coast of the 

 South Island, which makes the ninth place visited. After 

 recruiting there he proceeded to the rendezvous in Queen 

 Charlotte Sound, and found the "Adventure" at anchor in 

 Ship Cove, where she had been for six weeks. During the 

 prosecution of his researches in the South Pacific Cook 

 twice again visited Ship Cove, thus making three visits on 

 this the second voyage. On his third and last voyage Cook, 

 still in command of the " Besolution," with the " Discovery " 

 as consort, visited the familiar Ship Cove once only. 



We will now return to the first voyage. After discovering 

 the east coast of New Zealand, Cook anchored in Poverty 

 Bay on Sunday, the 8th October, 1769, and nowadays the 

 intercolonial steamers, when anchored there, pretty nearly 

 occupy his old berth. He landed the same afternoon on the 

 east side of the Turanganui River. The ship's log says, 

 " We landed abreast of the ship, and on the east side of the 

 river." A low reef of rocks runs out here and renders landing 

 easier. Afterwards the "Endeavour's" boats entered the 

 river; but, as Cook says in his Journal, this was not always 

 practicable, owing to the breakers on the bar. The appear- 

 ance of the low land on the east side of the river has, of course, 

 much altered, as the Gisborne breakwater has destroyed the 

 old features, but what I suppose was the place of landing, 

 some 200 yards to the eastward of the breakwater, under 

 shelter of the reef, remains much the same as in October, 

 1769. The Ven. Archdeacon Williams (the present Bishop of 

 Waiapu) has recorded a most interesting paper on the landing 

 of Cook at this spot and what happened there, and it is pub- 

 lished in vol. xxi. of the "Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute." His earlv knowledge of Povertv Bav enables him 

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