CHRONOLOGY. 
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trumpet, they were of a color between brown and yellow, 
their hair was long, and almost as thick as that of the Japa- 
nese, combed up and fixed with a quill, or some such thing, 
in the very same manner that the Japanese fastened their 
hair. On the 19th of December they killed three of his men ; 
he gave the place the name of Murderer’s Bay. 
1643, 4th of January, he sighted the North-West Cape 
and the Three Kings ; to the former of which he gave the 
name of Maria Van Diemen, in honor of the daughter of the 
Governor of Batavia ; and afterwards, to his discovery was 
given the name of New Zealand, from that of his own country. 
Tasman, however, was not aware of the land being insular, 
but supposed that it formed a portion of the Terra Australis 
Incognita, and therefore called it Staten Land. 
8th October 1769, and in 1777, Cook landed in New 
Zealand during his circumnavigations of the world : he sur- 
veyed the coasts of both islands with such accuracy, that 
substantially the charts still used are his ; he discovered the 
Straits which separate the two largest islands, to which his 
own name was affixed, and took possession of them for 
England ; so high was the opinion which he formed of their 
fertility and importance, that he suggested their immediate 
colonization; and in 1788 the question was agitated in Par- 
liament, whether New South Wales or New Zealand should 
be made a penal settlement ; that clear-sighted and observing 
man also recommended the very spot which Auckland now 
occupies, as the most suitable locality for the capital. Be- 
tween the visits of Cook, the massacre of Captain Furneux’s 
crew in the Bay of Islands, together with that of the Mascarin, 
commanded by Marion du Fresne, took place, which appears 
to have been occasioned in a great measure by their own 
injudicious conduct. 
Every recollection of Cook is interesting. There are several 
springs in the different places where he anchored which still 
go by his name ; one at Uaua, in Tologa Bay, on the East 
Coast, was pointed out to me by the natives, but the chief 
record of his having been on the island, is the cabbage and 
turnip which he sowed in various places, these have spread 
