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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Bridgit! the "250 years ago
today" was not intended to be a story of any nature, and, incidentally, just to
show how good a lookout Nick Young was: he spotted the cape that, now,
bears his name on October 7, but it was not until the 8th when the Endeavour,
actually, reached it!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=stylist@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via Stylist</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 09, 2019 2:42 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stylist@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">'Writers' Division Mailing List'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=bkpollpeter@gmail.com
href="mailto:bkpollpeter@gmail.com">Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Stylist] 250 years ago today</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Jewel,<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Thanks for sharing. Lots of historical info in this. Perhaps
you can find a different structure and format in which to relay all these facts.
True, not all nonfiction is literary, but often the most engaging nonfiction is
literary. Narrative nonfiction can go in many directions and can really draw
readers in. Consider a narrative arc. Try conjecture, scene. Can your personal
life weave in-and-out of all this history? There are a lot of
options.<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Bridgit<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B>From:</B> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Jewel via Stylist<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 5, 2019 11:13
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Writers' Division Mailing List
<stylist@nfbnet.org><BR><B>Cc:</B> Jewel <jewelblanch@kinect.co.nz>;
blindlikeme@yahoogroups.com; GoatsPlus@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Stylist] 250 years ago today<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>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.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>NOTE:
There is more about this name at the end of this letter. END
OF NOTE.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>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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