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Arapawa Island, 101n
Banks, Sir Joseph, birth, 10; family, 10; education, 11-12; election to Royal Society, 12; visit to Newfoundland and Labrador, 12; sails on the Endeavour, 13; follower of Linnaeus, 15; sails amply equipped, 15; good relations with Cook, 16; at Madeira and Rio de Janeiro, 16; ashore in Tierra del Fuego, 16-17; in Tahiti, 17; an observer of the Maori, 18-19; in New South Wales, 19-20; contracts malaria, 20; return to England, 20-21; prepares for voyage in the Resolution, 21; withdraws from Resolution, 21; voyage to Iceland, 21; becomes scientific adviser at Kew Gardens, 22; elected President of Royal Society, 22; the "Father of Australia , 23; and foundation of Linnean Society, 24; as a writer, 27-28; seasickness, 34, 118; awaiting sight of land, 39; first sight of New Zealand; first landing at Hawkes Bay, 41; at Poverty Bay, 41-48; humane attitude towards Maoris, 45, 47, 50, 53, 64, 73; at Hawkes Bay, 51-54; ashore at Tegadu Bay, 58-60; ashore at Tolaga Bay, 61-64; in Bay of Plenty, 67; at Mercury Bay, 68-77; at Thames River, 79-81; at Bay of Islands, 83-90; praises seaworthiness of the Endeavour, 91; celebrates Christmas, 93; at Queen Charlotte Sound, 96-108; first sight of Cook Strait, 104; off the coasts of the South Island, 110-118; reaffirms belief in a southern continent, 153-155; outlines ideas for future exploration in South Pacific, 155-156
Banks Peninsula, 111n
Bay of Islands, 121, 125
Bay of Plenty, 147
Bell-bird (Anthornis melanura), 99n, 105
Birds, sea, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 92, 94, 95, 110, 116, 117, 123-124
Buchan, Alexander, 13, 17, 19
Celery, wild (Apium prostratum), 64, 70, 77, 85, 126
Chicken, aboard ship, 30, 36
Colville, Cape, 78
Comet sighted, 31-32
Cook, James, 42, 43, 44-45, 46, 47, 48n, 50, 54, 56, 61, 62, 64, 69n, 79n, 83, 84, 90n, 93, 99n, 101, 102n, 104, 105, 109, 111, 112, 116n
Cook Strait, existence confirmed, 101, 104, 107; force of tides in, 108-109, 118, 120, 155
Court of Aldermen, 67
Crayfish, 65n, 125
Dalrymple, A., 42, 96n
Dampier, William, 20
East Cape, 64
Egmont, Mount, 95, 128
Endeavour, H. M. Bark, sails from Plymouth, 13; strikes reef at Endeavour River, 19; arrives home, 20; strikes rock at Bay of Islands, 90; seaworthiness praised, 91
Fernandez, Juan, 154
Flax (Phormium tenax), 127-128
Food supplies for ship, 35, 36
Frazier, A. F., 125n, 153
Gable End Foreland, 57
Gore, John, 38, 39, 72n, 111
Green, Charles, 20, 43
Greenstone, 54
Hawkes Bay, 54, 56, 147
Hicks, Zachary, 80
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Kahikatea tree (white pine), 80n
Kaitapeha hill, 101n
Kidnappers, Cape, 55
L'Hermite, Jaques, 154
Linnaeus, Carl, 13-15
Mahia Peninsula, 52
Maoris, first encounter with, 41-42; pas of, 41, 51, 102, 104, 146-147; weapons of, 42, 49, 62, 142-144; reactions to firearms, 42, 43-44, 52, 53, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72, 78, 81, 83, 84, 86, 97, 103; trade with, 43, 48, 55, 61, 65-66, 71, 72, 75, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 97; first visitors to the Endeavour, 45-46; music of, 46, 145; physical appearance and dress, 49-50, 60, 63, 67, 74, 7S. 76, 88-89. 97. 98, 128, 131-134, 144; canoes of, 50, 63, 64-65, 66, 67, 138-140; agriculture of, 51, 59, 77, 87, 88, 126, 142; attacks on ship, 53, 54, 55, 65, 66, 68, 69, 78, 83, 97, 144-145; attempt to kidnap Tayeto, 55; food of, 59, 73, 76, 136-138, 147; sanitation of, 60; womenfolk of, 60, 128-129, 133-134, 148; cannibalism of, 62, 86-87, 98-99, 100, 102, 136, 145-146; toys of, 63; war dance of, 63, 76, 97, 144-145; houses of, 63-64, 134-135; shell middens of, 71; mourning customs of, 73, 149-150; tattooing of, 82, 87, 130-131; fishing, 88, 100, no, 128, 141-142; burial customs of, 98, 149; preserved heads of, 101; able handling of canoes, 128; warlike habits of, 129, 142; healthiness of, 138; carving of, 140; implements of, 140; weaving of, 141; social organization of, 147-148; religion of, 149; language of, 150-152; similarity to natives of other islands, 152
Maria van Diemen, Cape, 90, 93, 120, 128
Matai, 80
Mercury, transit of, 69, 72, 121
Molineux, Robert, 103
Monkhouse, J., 20
Monkhouse, W. B., 20, 43, 44
Motunau Island, 66n
Motuara Island, 96
Murderers' Bay (subsequently Massacre Bay and Golden Bay), 96
Narbrough, Sir John, 124
New Zealand, discovery by Tasman, 120; naming of, 120n; mountainous character, 121; good harbours of, 121; suitability for agriculture, 122; timber of, 122, 127; possible source of minerals, 123; quadrupeds of, 123; birds of, 123; insects of, 124; abundant fish supply of, 124-125; plants of, 125-126; sparse population of, 128
Oysters, 74, 77
Parkinson, Sydney, 8, 13, 19, 20
Penguins, 124
Phipps, Constantine, 9
Pigs aboard ship, 30, 36
Plants, classification of, 13-14
Porpoises, 30, 36, 37, 39, 112
Portland Island, 51
Queen Charlotte Sound, 121, 147
Quiros, Pedro Fernandez, 153, 154
Rarotonga, 91n
Reynolds, John, 13, 20
Roberts, James, 13
Roggeveen, Jacob, 154
Ruahine Range, 53n
Scurvy, 20, 35,
Seals sighted, 33, 37, 56
Sharpe, Benjamin, 153n
Sheep aboard ship, 36
Ship Cove, 96n
Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus), 81n
Solander, Daniel Carl, 13, 15-16, 20, 35, 39, 42, 58, 61, 62, 70, 77, 84, 87, 101, 103, 104, 105, 108, 118
South Cape, 116
Sporing, Hermann, 13, 20, 64
Table Cape, 57
Tapa cloth, 54, 61, 85
Tapuaenuku, 109n, 110
Tasman, Abel Jansen, 92n, 96, 102, 107, 113, 118, 120
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Tayeto, 55, 61
Tegadu Bay, 58, 147
Te Paurewa, 63n
Thames River, suitable area for colony, 122
Three Kings Islands, 92, 93
Toiava, 70, 77, 78, 79
Tolaga Bay, 122, 147
Topaa, 103n, 105, 107
Torres Strait, 20
Tupaia, 18, 19, 20, 29n, 31, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 51, 52, 54, 55, 61, 62,
Tupaia--contd 66, 78, 87, 89, 91, 98, 100, 105, 107, 112, 118, 148, 150
Turnagain, Cape, 56, 109, 110
Waihou River, 79
Waterspout, 30
Whale Island, 66n
Whales sighted, 35, 38, 56
Wine, 30; casks broached by crew, 31, 36
Young, Nicholas, 40
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