This book presents the History of New Zealand: the "Land of the Long White Cloud." New Zealand is an Island country of the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The date of man's arrival in New Zealand is uncertain. All that can be safely asserted is that by the 14th century A.D. Polynesian canoe-men had reached its northern shores in successive voyages. By 1642 they had spread to South Island, for there Abel Jansen Tasman found them when, in the course of his circuitous voyage from Java in the "Heemskirk," he chanced upon the archipelago, coasted along much of its western side, though without...
This book presents the History of New Zealand: the "Land of the Long White Cloud." New Zealand is an Island country of the southwestern Pacific Ocean....
