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out in a review appearing in the Otago Daily Times of No- 

 vember, 1891. The abbe considers that the massacre was 

 a just retribution— utu — for De Surville's brutal cruelty three 

 years before. Long afterwards the " Wiwis " were known 

 amongst the natives as " the bloody tribe of Marion." 



With the years 1783 and 1784 terminates the history of the 

 earliest New Zealand literature. It reopens again in 1807. 

 with " An Account of the Bay of Islands," written by Mr. 

 Savage, who was surgeon of one of the early convict vessels to 

 Botany Bay. After discharging its human cargo of criminals 

 on the shores of New South Wales the ship was sent down in 

 1805 to New Zealand to collect a cargo of spars for the British 

 navy. This writer has, then, the honour of being the author 

 next in order after Cook, with an interval of nearly five-and- 

 twenty years between them. From this time onwards, and to 

 the present day, the publications anent New Zealand have 

 increased and multiplied exceedingly. At times they have 

 poured forth from the press in a perfect torrent, and it may be 

 asserted that for its age and size no other country has had 

 more written concerning it. But an account of these does not 

 come within the scope of this paper. 



My subject would not be complete without saying a few 

 words relative to an old map, dated 1542, a century before 

 Tasman's discovery of New Zealand. It was executed by one 

 Jean Botz, was dedicated to Henry the Eighth, is in the 

 British Museum, and is over 7ft. in length. This interesting 

 and ancient map is one of four, also in the British Museum, 

 which were photo-lithographed ten years ago at the joint 

 expense of the Governments of New South Wales, Victoria, 

 and South Australia. In this the Governments of these 

 colonies have acted with a noble public spirit, and have done 

 a very great service in extending a knowledge of such old 

 documents, which are certainly the oldest charts of Australia 

 known to exist. The originals were made the subject of much 

 careful study by Malte-Brun, more than sixty years ago, in 

 his " Histoire de Geographic" and still more fully in 1859 by 

 Mr. Major, of the British Museum, in a long and learned 

 contribution to the Hakluyt Society. The whole subject is 

 one of great intricacy, and requires much patience and further 

 research before it can be fully elucidated. For some time I 

 have been collecting information upon it from many sources, 

 which I shall have the pleasure of laying before the Institute 

 at another time. Meanwhile, I exhibit a facsimile section of 

 that portion of Jean Eotz's map which contains all that was 

 known of Australia before 1542. It may fairly be presumed 

 that the large islands to the east are those of New Zealand. 

 To the small island is affixed the name of " Y a de Saill," to 

 the larger " Yslas de magna." 



