Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Discovery by Tasman, 1642; 2. Cook explores, 1770; 3. Cook's second visit, 1773; 4. Cook's third and fourth visits, 1773–4; 5. Cook's last visit, La Perouse and Bligh, 1776 to 1788; 6. Vancouver's visit, 1791; 7. First sealing gang, 1792; 8. Malaspina visits Doubtful Sound, 1793; 9. Wreck of the Endeavour, 1795; 10. Bass and his monopoly, 1801 to 1803; 11. First sealers arrive, 1803 to 1805; 12. The Sealing Islands, 1804 to 1808; 13. Stewart Island exploited, 1809–10; 14. Marquarie Island trade, 1810 to 1820; 15. The flax trade, 1813–14; 16. Sailing experiences, 1808 to 1820; 17. Bellingshausen at Queen Charlotte Sound, 1820; 18. Trade of the early twenties; 19. The far south, 1820 to 1830; 20. The General Gates, 1819 to 1824; 21. Cruise of the Snapper, 1822 to 1823; 22. The natives, 1823; 23. First coastal description, 1823; 24. The later twenties; 25. Colonization schemes, 1825 to 1827; 26. Discovery of the French Pass, 1827; 27. Cook Strait and vicinity, 1830 to 1833; 28. Foveaux Strait, 1830 to 1835; 29. Otago Whaling Station, 1831 to 1835; 30. Cook Strait, 1834; 31. Cook Strait and Chatham Island, 1835; Index.

Promotional Information

The third, 1909 edition of McNab's influential 1905 history of European contact with New Zealand's South Island before 1840.