He took possession of the country in the name of George the Third.

Some of its coast-names still recall incidents of his patient voyaging.

"Young Nick's Head" is the point which the boy Nicholas Young sighted on the 6th of October, 1769--the first bit of New Zealand seen by English eyes.

At Cape Runaway the Maoris, after threatening an attack, ran away from a discharge of firearms.

At Cape Kidnappers they tried to carry off Cook's Tahitian boy in one of their canoes.