Identifier: boytravellersina00knox (find matches)
Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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VIEW OF AUCKLAND FROM MOUNT EDEN. Look at the map, continued the Doctor, and you will see thatNew Zealand is divided nearly in the centre by a channel of the seaknown as Cook Strait. The two islands thus formed are known asNorth Island and South Island, the former containing forty-eight thou-sand square miles, and the latter fifty-seven thousand. Beyond SouthIsland is Stewart Island, which is triangular, and measures about thirty-six miles on a side; taken together the three islands remind you ofItaly, and are shaped not unlike a boot with its toe towards the north. 190 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. South Island is sometimes called Middle Island, from its position be-tween Xorth and Stewart islands. Cook Strait commemorates the great navigator who was killedon the Sandwich Islands. He landed here in 1769, and took possession
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MISSION STATION AT TANGITERORIA, NEW ZEALAND. of the country in the name of England. He made five visits altogetherto New Zealand, and introduced pigs, potatoes, sheep, goats, and otheranimals and vegetables. Hadnt Tasman already taken the country for Holland ? saidFrank. )Sro, replied the Doctor, he did not set foot at all in Xew Zea-land. He anchored in a bay in South Island, next to that in which thetown of Nelson now stands, and had an encounter with the natives whoopposed his going on shore. He lost four men in the fight, named theplace Massacre Bay, in memory of the occurrence, and sailed awaywithout landing. How soon after Captain Cooks occupation of the country did theBritish Government establish colonies ? Not for some time, replied Doctor Bronson. In the latter part EARLY DAYS IN KEW ZEALAND. 191 of the last century and the beginning of this many American and Eng-hsh whalers visited Xew Zealand, and year by year the knowledge ofthe country was increased. Visitors usually got

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