Discovery of New Zealand. Landings in Poverty Bay. Hostile attacks of the natives: some of them kilted. Three boys taken on board, and kindly treated. Friendly intercourse with the natives established. Voyage southward to Capo Turnagain, and from thence northward, along the east coast. Various incidents during the voyage, and different places visited. Tegadoo—Tolaga—Mercury Bay—River Thames. Attack by the natives in the Bay of Islands. Transactions there. Navigation round the North Cape, and along the west coast to Queen Charlotte's Sound. Incidents there; the New Zealanders found to be cannibals. Discovery of Cook's Strait, dividing New Zealand into two islands. Circumnavigation of both islands completed. Memorials of Cook's discoveries left in that country. Everett's Verses, occasioned by the discovery of one of these memorials by a Missionary.
Having proceeded as far as 40° 22' S. latitude, and encountered strong gales, without any signs of land, Lieut. Cook altered his course, advancing in a westerly direction; and after observing several birds, seals, and bunches of sea-weed, which indicated an approach to some shore, land was at last seen from the mast-head, on the 6th of October, by Nicholas Young, a boy; after whom the first headland observed was named Young Nick's Head. Next day, the land was perceived very distinctly; and its aspect differed greatly from that of the islands lately visited. Four or five ranges of hills appeared to rise one above another, with a chain of lofty mountains above all, having part of their
