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ceit to hold that my own imagination could better supply the 

 scene of the landing than actors reciting blank verse, asto- 

 nished Queensland blacks, and a crowd somewhat inclined to 

 jeer. Accounts in the newspapers seemed to represent the 

 affair as better than was expected ; accounts of private friends 

 varied, some even rising to violent condemnation. 



Before my luggage had passed through the Wellington 

 Customhouse I was inquiring how to reach Queen Charlotte 

 Sound, and a telegram was sent to a man in the sound, 

 owner of a steam-launch. It is easy to reach Picton, easy to 

 see Ship Cove from the deck of the Nelson steamer, but not 

 so easy to make any closer inspection. Next morning a swift 

 steamer of the Union Company carried me across Cook Strait, 

 up Tory Channel, as to which the geography of some pro- 

 minent Wellingtonians on board was rather at fault. A shock 

 awaited me at Picton, where the settler with the launch was 

 not, and at his home no telegram could reach him, so that 

 things looked like a stay of three days in Picton. But in a 

 few hours the settler turned up and carried me in his launch 

 down to Dryden Bay, reaching which, shortly ere midnight, 

 I slept at his house, and the next morning the way to Ship 

 Cove was clear. 



The part of Queen Charlotte Sound connected with the 

 name of Cook is the part nearest to the mouth. Five times 

 Cook visited Ship Cove — once in the first voyage, no fewer 

 than three times in the second, when he made it his point 

 cVappui for attacks on the Antarctic, and once in the third. 

 It may well be considered Cook's special part of New Zealand. 

 He surveyed it carefully in the first voyage. A map of it is 

 given by Hawkesworth. 



In all the eight volumes labelled "Cook's Voyages" 

 (though one of them is an account of voyages before Cook) 

 there is only this one chart given of Queen Charlotte Sound, 

 at page 374 in Hawkesworth' s second volume. On this chart 

 the names given on the westexm side are " Canibal Cove" 

 (sic), " Ship Cove," "Shag Cove," and " West Bay." Other 

 names in the map are the two islands Motuara and Long 

 Island, and, upon the eastern side, " East Bay," " Long 

 Point," " Grass Cove." All names beside these nine are later 

 than the "Endeavour" voyage. Rumour ran that che name 

 " Cannibal Cove " is not relished by the residents ; but it would 

 be a pity now to change a name so historical. Here is what 

 Cook said : " Soon after we landed we met with two or three 

 of the natives, who not long befoi'e must have been regaling 

 themselves upon human flesh, for I got from one of them the 

 bone of the forearm of a man or woman which was quite fresh, 

 and the flesh had been but lately picked off, which they told us 

 they had eat. They gave us to understand that but a few 



