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planted the name " Nobody-knows-what," given by Cook to a 

 portion of his incomplete survey, by that of " Somebody-knows- 

 what," a name retained in the chart to the present day. He 

 discovered that cluster of rocky islets, lying about sixty miles 

 south-west of Stewart Island, upon which at this moment it 

 is proposed to erect a lighthouse. These he called " The 

 Snares," a name as suitable as that of the " The Traps " given 

 by Cook to those dangerous rocks lying still closer to the main- 

 land and in the fairway of the Melbourne steamers. In the 

 same year Lieutenant Broughton, who in the tender " Chat- 

 ham " accompanied Vancouver's ship the "Discovery," dis- 

 covered the Chatham Islands. These he named after the elo- 

 quent Pitt, Earl of Chatham, who died on the floor of the House 

 of Lords whilst raising his voice against the injustice of England 

 towards her American colonies. The natives, known to us as 

 Morioris, probably numbered two thousand. He describes 

 them as being of middling size, well limbed and fleshy. Their 

 hair, which was black, was generally worn long, and they were 

 dressed in sealskins or wore mats. Despite their laughing 

 cheerful nature they quarrelled with the sailors, and one of 

 their number was killed. 



In 1793 two Natives of New Zealand were, to use plain 

 terms, stolen or kidnapped from their home in Doubtless Bay, 

 and carried to Norfolk Island to teach the convicts how to 

 dress the flax which grows there plentifully. Their names 

 were Tuki and Huru, or, as spelt in the original account, Toogee 

 and Hoodoo. During their captivity there of six months' dura- 

 tion Lieut. -Governor King procured much interesting informa- 

 tion from them regarding their country, and induced Tuki 

 to draw with a piece of chalk on the floor of a room a 

 sketch of New Zealand. This was added to and further im- 

 proved, and was then copied on paper by Captain King. This 

 unique and primitive map was printed in London in 1798, and 

 is contained in Collins's " Account of New South Wales," pub- 

 lished the same year. A copy of this is here exhibited. By 

 exercise of faith and stretch of imagination the North Island 

 may be recognised, with Te Eeinga and Hokianga Eiver 

 marked thereon, or, as they are there spelt, Terryinga and 

 Chokahanga. But by no faith or imagination is the South 

 Island to be recognised. It is about a fourth the size of the 

 North Island, is of rhomboidal figure, and almost its sole con- 

 tents is a cu'cular figure marked, "Lake where stones for 

 hatchets are got." 



Early in this century the outlying islands of New Zea- 

 land were discovered by the masters of the whaling or sealing 

 vessels. In 1806 Captain Bristow fell in with and named the 

 Auckland Islands after Lord Auckland — a group which in 1850 

 was granted by the British Government to the Messrs. 

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