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Journal of the Nelson and Marlborough Historical Societies, Volume 1, Issue 2, November 1982

The New Zealanders—The Library of Entertaining Knowledge-(1830)

The New Zealanders—The Library of Entertaining Knowledge-(1830)

The publication was for many years attributed to Lord Brougham, probably for no stronger reason than that he was president of the Society. It is now known to be the work of John Lillie Craik, L.L.D,' the professor of English Literature at Belfast. Craik relied on an earlier and inaccurate translation, even to the extent of quoting the month of Tasman's arrival as being September 1642 instead of December 1642. The account of Tasman's unfortunate encounter with the Maoris off the Nelson coast together with a facsimile of Tasman's drawing of the attack on his ships is given on pp. 20–23. The two names which Tasman gave to indentations on the Nelson coastline viz. Mordenaers' Bay (Murderers' Bay – Golden Bay) and Abel Tasman's Reede (Abel Tasman's Roadstead – somewhere not far east of d'Urville page 34Island, have both faded from the maps of the modern cartographer. A very readable account of Tasman's unfortunate encounter on the Nelson coastline is given by a local authoress –