Captain Cook and the Europeans
Captain James Cook
Captain Cook was a was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and a captain in the Royal Navy.
Captain Cook Death
the Hawaiian Islanders who killed Captain Cook were not cannibals. They believed that the power of
a man was in his bones, so they cooked different part of his body to enable the bones to be easily
removed.
Childhood
James Cook was born in England, on October 27, 1728,Captain James Cook is the son of a Scottish
farmhand.
As a teenager, Captain Cook did farming work with his father until the age of 18. He was offered an
apprenticeship by a Quaker shipowner in a small seaside village near England Where he was brought
up.
Before Captain Cook came to New Zealand
Before Captain Cook arrived in New Zealand Maori did not have any guns, clothes or devices.
When Europeans arrived every part of the country was divided among the iwi .When the europeans
arrived maori had already been in aotearoa for more than five hundred years.
First Encounters
For almost 130 years Europeans and Maori didn’t have any contact with each other. Then on the 8th
of October in 1769 James Cook and others landed on the east side of the Turanganui River.
After Europeans arrived
Hone Heke a Ngapuhi chief was a proud leader. He had been the first maori chief to sign the treaty
hoping it would benefit his people.
Rongowhakaata chief Te Rakau was killed by the Endeavour’s and others were wounded.
New zealand wars were fought between 1845 and 1872.
Written by Deeny
