1 04 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



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 desxDerately 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 

 intercourse 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, in 

 plain and positive language, that on this day and in this place the newly- 

 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 

 occasion the marines and the English colours and the gentlemen of the 

 ship, with a fine long summer's day before them, — "the foe, too, having 

 retreated." 



I may also mention that Parkinson's entry 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, (8), 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. 

 t The jotirual is profusely illustrated from his cTriiwiugs. 



