Beaglehole J. C. (ed) 1955. The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery [v1]. The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768 - 1771. Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society.
Notes
Notes
p.182 (aute). Anaura Bay. Traded with "George"s Island Cloth" [Broussonetia papyrifera]. Preferred by Māori to English cloth. Obviously knew tapa, though had not seen it in such quantities.
p.186 "We found in the woods trees of above 20 different sorts .... there was another sort of a deep yellow which we imagined might prove useful in dyeing....We likewise found one cabbage tree which we cut down for the sake of the cabbage" (footnote - yellow possibly Coprosma repens or C. robusta). [Note also that the cabbage tree referred to is almost certainly the nīkau, Rhopalostylis sapida (Beever 1981)]
December 1769, Bay of Islands "We met with about half a dozen cloth plants ..." Further comment on scarcity and preciousness to Māori, used for ear ornaments.
p.277 flax and uses described. p.282 fernroot
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