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crew threw stones at them, and were very daring and insolent. Our people 
had recourse to their arms: the captain, Dr. Solander, and Mr. Banks 
fired at them and killed and wounded several of them. The natives fought 
very desperately with their paddles, but were soon overpowered; their 
canoe was taken, three of them made prisoners and brought on board the 
ship, and the rest were suffered to escape." 
In connection with this I just copy a few sentences from Cook's voyage 
where, in speaking of this landing, Cook (or his editor, Dr. Hawkesworth) 
says :—'' In the morning (October 9th) we saw several of the natives where 
they had been seen the night before. As I was desirous to establish an 
intereourse with them I ordered three boats to be manned with seamen and 
marines, and proceeded towards the shore accompanied by Mr. Banks, Dr. 
Solander, the other gentlemen, and Tupia. On the marines being landed they 
marched with a jack carried before them to a little bank about fifty yards 
from the water-side; here they were drawn up, and I again advanced with 
Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander ; Tupia, Mr. Green, and Mr. Monkhouse being 
with us,” 
Here, then, we have from a qualified and unexceptionable eye-witness, ir 
plain and positive language, that on this day and in this place the Mei 
discovered country was formally taken possession of for the King; and we 
also see from Captain Cook's statement that there were on shore on that 
oecasion the marines and the English colours and the gentlemen of the 
ship, with a fine long summer's day before fom, “the foe, too, having 
retreated.” 
I may also mention that Parkiieas’ s pre in his journal of their taking 
formal possession of Ulietea, (already quoted from Cook), is made in a 
similar manner ; he says,—** The captain went on shore and took possession 
of the island for the King; he saw but few inhabitants and scarce any of 
distinguished rank among them." 
And it should not be forgotten: (1). That Sydney Parkinson was a 
very moral, truthful, young man, one not likely to have entered anything 
wrong in his journal; indeed all his entries exhibit carefulness. (2). That 
Sydney Parkinson died at sea on their voyage to England, so that he could 
not have purposely altered his journal ; and further, (3), that as his journal 
was published by his brother in London in the same year in which Cook's 
first voyage appeared, it cannot be reasonably said or supposed that any 
addition or alteration thereto was made by the publishers, who were, of course, 
as utterly ignorant of the materials Dr. Hawkesworth had at command as 
they were of New Zealand itself! Besides, his brother, the editor, says in 
his preface, —“ I shall leave the works of my brother to speak his talents, t 
* Parkinson's Journal, pp. 87, 88. 
+ The journal is profusely illustrated from his drawings. 
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