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4 THE CHARTOGRAPHY OF NEW ZEALAND.

was killed and eaten by the natives at the Bay of Islands.
Neither of the expeditions added anything of importance to
Cook's observations or to the knowledge of the country.

Through Cook's glorious discoveries the attention of Europe
was drawn in a very marked manner to New Zealand.
Whalers visited its harbours, and occasional adventurers
began to settle; but the early period of the European coloni-
zation was attended only with crime and disgrace. A new and
better era began with the year 1814, when Samuel Marsden
founded the first Christian mission ; from that time the
intercourse between the Europeans and Aboriginals was
better regulated. An attempt at colonization was made in
the year 1825, but it was not until 1840 that New Zealand
became an English Colony.

Since the time of Cook, in the year 1769, and still more,
since that of Marsden, in 1814, down to the Admiralty surveys
in 1848, the literature bearing upon New Zealand is comprised
in a great number of very valuable publications, official reports,
works of travels, books, pamphlets of various kinds, charts and
maps. Thompson* counts not less than two hundred and forty-
five. Amongst the maps of the period are Cook's surveys, the
detail charts of separate bays and harbours, by English and
French naval officers - reckoning from North to South: Port
Monganui, by A. H. Halloran, 1845; Bay of Islands, by M.
Duperrey, 1824; Tutukaka Harbour, and Nongodo River, by N.
C. Phillips, 1837; Mahurangi Harbour, by J. A. Cudlip,
1834; Port Nicholson, by E. M. Chaffers, 1839; Manukau
Harbour, by G. O. Ormsby, 1845; Torrent Bay and Astrolabe
Road, by M. Guilbert, 1827; Current Basin, by M. Guilbert,
1827; Port Hardy and Port Gore, by Lieutenant Moore,
1834; Tory Channel, by E. M. Chaffers, 1839; Port Under-
wood in Cloudy Bay, by G. Johnson, 1837; Akaroa Harbour,
by Commander O. Stanley, 1840; Rouabouki Road, by Lieut.
O. Wilson, 1839; Dusky and Chalky Bay, by M. Duperrey,
1824. The survey of the settlement and the beautiful map
of New Plymouth and its vicinity, by F. A. Carrington, 1840;

* "The Story of New Zealand," vol. II, p. 341 et seq.; see also the
larger work by Hochstetter -- "New Zealand," p. 549.