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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Captain James Cook first sighted New
Zealand : or to be more precise: Nick Young, one of the most junior
midshipmen of the Endeavour's crew: did, when he was on watch in the
Crow's nest: on October 6 1769 , exactly 250 years ago
today.<BR> As a reward for his sharpness of eye, the piece of
God's Own: New Zealand: Aotearoa [ Land of the Long White Cloud]
that he spotted bears his name: Young Nick's Head: and is the cape
that is the southernmost arm of Poverty Bay.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">NOTE: There is more about this
name at the end of this letter. END OF NOTE.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">The ship's heading was adjusted and it
sailed for the cape that Nick had reported and from there it was only a matter
of <BR>turning the ship's helm a smidgeon, and the Endeavour sailed into Poverty
Bay: Cook's first, of several, landfalls.<BR>This was quite
opposite to the strategy of the Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman
who was the first <BR>European to sight this new country in 1642 and who,
incidentally, bestowed the name of New Zealand <BR>upon it: he, merely
sailed around the coastline, never once touching land, which, as will be found
<BR>a little later in this telling was perhaps, a very wise decision. <BR>Now
having jumped back into our time machine and pressed the button marked 1769, we
see the Endeavour sailing into the bay that bears the rather unprepossessing one
of Poverty Bay. Note: that is not the, original, Maori name and
there will be more on that later.<BR>As I said at the beginning of this letter,
that was, to the day, 250 years ago, but here we are, now having to beg the
Maoris forgiveness for the fact that when the Endeavour entered the bay, the
<BR>welcome she and those aboard received from the locals was, a tad, and quite
a big tad at that, less <BR>than friendly.<BR>At the sight of a fleet of war
canoes paddled at speed and packed with heavily-armed warriors, the
<BR>Endeavour's crew resorted to cannon fire as a warning, but this was ignored
so, to ram the point <BR>home, instead of firing wide, the next cannonball
landed in one canoe, killing 11 of its occupants: I thought that that
showed a great deal of restraint as, without breaking into a sweat, the entire
fleet and all aboard could have been sent to the bottom.<BR>Unlike the tribes of
the North American continent, the Maoris did not have bows and arrows, so
all <BR>fighting, and there being no love lost between many of the tribes, there
was plenty of that, all <BR>weapons were for hand to hand combat.<BR>Now I don't
know if the next incident that I am about to relate occurred in Poverty Bay or
not, but <BR>Cook's men went ashore to gather water to refill the ship's water
barrels, and when they failed to <BR>return, a second party was sent out to
search for them, and they were successful, well! successful <BR>insofar as they
found what was left of the water party: left after the Maoris had
ambushed, killed <BR>and roasted and eaten them!<BR>Which was the more heinous
of the two incidents? At least the Endeavour's crew didn't cannibalise
their victims!!!<BR>But are we of European descent asking that our dark-skinned
brethren go down on their knees and offer their abject apology for what was done
by their rellies of 250: and less: years ago?<BR>Harking back to
those North Island east coast bays: there are two in particular: the
Bay of Plenty and its immediate neighbour, Poverty Bay.<BR>When the Endeavour
dropped anchor in the Bay of Plenty, unlike the hostility demonstrated by its
neighbour, when the crew went ashore, they were welcomed and shown every
kindness and the ship was reprovisioned: hence the Bay of Plenty, but when
they paid a second visit to the neighbouring bay, and this time, being well
armed with revolvers, the Maoris having learned a lesson from the ships's
previous visit, they did not offer any outward show of hostility, but neither
were they forthcoming with help of any description: hence Poverty Bay,
"and you can put that in your pipes and smoke it, and we won't even give you the
tobacco, whatever tobacco is!"<BR>On February 17th of this year, one of the
district councellors proposed that Poverty Bay have a dual name: its
current one and its original Maori one. If it wasn't for the fact that the
Maori one is a heck of a mouthful for us, tongue-tied New Zealanders of European
descent, I would have said "Ditch Poverty Bay as the region is far from being
poverty-stricken. so the region would be: Te Reo Turanganui A Kiwa
Poverty Bay.<BR>I can envisage the Maori name being shortened to Turanganui,
which would, in time and given practice: heaps of it: , be quite
manageable. The largest town: or is it a city? is Gisborne,
and the largest populace in the Bay of Plenty is Tauranga, so there might be a
little confusion there at first, but, at the present, I think that the proposal
is writ in water, and not in
stone!<BR> Jewel
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