A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to New Zealand

Polack, J. S.-continued.

8vo. 2 vols. Pp. xii, 403, vi, 441. Map of New Zealand from Cook, D'Urville, Duperrey, and Herd, with additions by J. S. Polack, 1838; and insets of Bay of Islands, Wangari or Bream Bay, and East Cape. 6 fullpage engravings and several woodcuts from the author's drawings.

Full of research and observation. History, topography, and natural products of New Zealand; traditions and customs of the natives; first pakehas; missions; and Baron de Thierry's pretensions. Abounds in curious information gathered from the natives whilst travelling. First known reference to the moa is on p. 303, Vol. i. On p. 282, Vol. ii, is a list of numerals in sixty Pacific, Indian, and African languages. The notes give an account of the discovery and productions of the outlying islands of New Zealand and the whale-fishery.

Joel Samuel Polack, a storekeeper and flax-trader, resided at Kororareka (now Russell). Was a Londoner, and gave evidence before the Lords Committee in 1838. He returned to New Zealand after its colonisation and lived in Auckland. Left for Californian gold-diggings in 1849, and there died. By turns had been an artist in Europe, a ship-chandler in Australia, in the Commissariat and Ordnance Departments in Africa, and a traveller in America.

Reviewed in Eclectic, Vols. lxx and xc, and Monthly, Vol. cxlvii. The former Eclectic article is reprinted in John Foster's “Fosteriana,” London, 1858, pp. 538-57.

Rienzi, G. L. Domeny de. Océanie ou Cinquième Partie du Monde. | Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanesie; offrant les résultats des voyages et des découvertes de l'auteur et de ses devanciers, ainsi que ses nouvelles classifications et divisions de ces contrées, par M. G. L. Domeny de Rienzi, voyageur en Océanie, en Orient, &c. &c., | membre de plusieurs académies de France et d'Italie, de l'Institut Historique, de la Société de Géographie, | de la Société de Statistique Universelle, des Sociétés Anatiques de Paris et de Bombay (Inde), &c., &c. |- Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs, | Imprimeurs-Libraires de l'Institut de France, | Rue Jacob, No. 56 | MDCCCXXXVIII.

8vo. 3 vols., and a 4th of 304 plates and 5 maps.

A splendid and laborious compilation from all sources of voyages and travels, together with much original matter, collated at first for L'Univers Pittoresque." 200 pages are devoted to New Zealand, of which a full account is given, derived from Cook to D'Urville and La Place, with many of the author's critical notes and observations, and 20 plates. The outlying islands are also described.

An Italian translation appeared in 1838, by A. Francesco Falconetti: also in 4 vols. 8vo; Venice; Giuseppe Antonelli.

Symonds, Capt. W. C. Notes on Cloudy Bay and other Harbours in New Zealand.

Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc.; pp. 8.

1839.

Alison, A.-continued.

Sm. 8vo. Pp. 22.

Addressed to the first body of New Zealand emigrants from the Clyde, on the eve of their departure in the " Bengal Merchant." An elaborate speech, with statistics, insisting on the development of emigration and close relations with emigrants.

The writer afterwards became Sir Archibald Alison.

Beale, Thomas. The Natural History of the Sperm Whale | its Anatomy and Physiology-Food | Spermaceti-Ambergris-Rise and Progress of the Fishery Chase and Capture- | Cutting in" and Trying out" | Description of the Ships, Boats, Men, and | Instruments used in the Attack; with an Account of its favourite Places of Resort. | To which is added, a Sketch | of a South-Sea Whaling Voyage; embracing a Description of the Extent, as well as the Adventures and Accidents that occurred during the | Voyage in which the Author was personally engaged. | By Thomas Beale, Surgeon, | Demonstrator of Anatomy to the Eclectic Society of London, etc., and late Surgeon to the Kent and Sarah and Elizabeth," South Seamen. | London: | John van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row. | MDCCCXXXIX.

8vo. Pp. 393. 3 engravings and 6 woodcuts. The 2nd ed., though not so indicated on title-page.

Beale cruised in the Pacific during 1831-32, visiting many of the islands, to which he makes interesting reference. Recites Polynesian legend of Kinau and Tuanoa. Mr. Enderby in 1788 extended the sperm-whale fishery to the Pacific. In the year 1802 ships were sent to whale off the island of New Zealand."

Specially full articles, with notes, on the history of the whale and whaling are in Simmonds's Colonial Magazine for 1844-45, and in the New Zealand Gazette for 1842. They were written by "W." (Edward Wakefield, the father of Edward Gibbon Wakefield).

*The Colonization of New Zealand. Monthly Review, cl. 38.

Cunningham, A., F.L.S.

On the Habits of the Apteryx Australis, a Bird of New Zealand, closely allied to the Struthionidæ, and named by the native inhabitants" kiwi." By the late Allan Cunningham, Esq.

Paper in "Annals of Natural History; or, Magazine of Zoology, Botany, and Geology " Vol. iv, 1839, p. 312. Read before the Zoological Society, 14th May, 1839, and entitled "Rough Notes collected from the New Zealanders (by aid of the Missionaries) on the Habits of the Apteryx Australis." Describes its egg, nest, and habits, and mode of capture.

Confidential. Documents, exhibiting

the Views of the Committee |

and

of the Church Missionary Society on the New Zealand Question, explanatory of the present State of that Country. | London | Printed by Richard Watts, | Crown Court, Temple Bar. | 1839.

8vo. Pp. 55. Dated 4th April, 1839.

Contains also the missionaries' vindication of their purchases of land and their views respecting the New Zealand Association, and describes the formation in New Zealand of an association to exercise the functions of government. The last is interesting, giving the fifteen resolutions of the Kororarika Association, formed on the 23rd May, 1838, by the residents for self-pro

Confidential Documents, &c.-continued.

tection from vicious whites and troublesome natives. Every member to provide himself with a musket, bayonet, brace of pistols, cutlass, and 30 rounds of ball cartridge. Fines ranged chiefly from £5 to £10.

(Proof. Confidential.) | Documents respecting the Purchase of Land in New Zealand by the | Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society. | With a Preface by the Committee. London: Hatchards, Piccadilly. Seeleys, Fleet Street. 1839.

8vo. Pp. xxi, 34.

Contains partial reprint of the preceding. Expresses regret respecting some of the purchases, but is generally lenient to men placed in exceptionally difficult circumstances.

Domett, A. Venice. By Alfred Domett. "Nor bate a jot Of heart or hope."-Milton. | London | Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street. | 1839.

A de

Svo. Pp. 30. Frontispiece, view of Venice. Inserted as being probably Domett's earliest sustained effort. scription and philosophical musings on Venice as an historical example.

Durham, Earl of. The Report and Despatches of the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty's High Commissioner | and | Governor-General of British North America. London: | Ridgways, Piccadilly. | MDCCCXXXIX.

8vo. Pp. xvi, 423.

Lord Durham was the first governor of the New Zealand Company. On the occasion of his visit to Canada he was accompanied by E. G. Wakefield and Charles Buller, who, it is said, had considerable part in the preparation of this report, which contains the scheme for granting self-government to the colonies. A reprint appeared in 1905.

Instructions from The New Zealand Land Company to Colonel Wakefield, Principal Agent of the Company.

Fcp. 8vo. Pp. 23.

Also found in " Information relative to New Zealand," and in "Correspondence with the Secretary of State relative to New Zealand"; 1840; pp. 22-27.

Relate to purchase of lands, acquisition of general information as to the country, and preparation for the formation of settlements under the auspices of the company.

King, Capt. P. Parker, and Fitzroy, Capt. Robert.

Narrative of the

8vo. 3 vols. The appendix to Vol. ii forms a 4th vol.

Vol. i.Sub-title: Proceedings of the First Expedition, | 18261830, under the Command of Captain P. Parker King, | R.N., F.R.S. Pp. xxviii (2 pages of directions to the binder and of errata), 597. 3 maps,

King, Capt. P. Parker, and Fitzroy, Capt. Robert—continued. with insets, and 16 plates (south-west coasts of South America). Appendix contains compass, latitude and longitude, tide, and height tables; magnetic observations; zoology, &c. The expedition left Plymouth for Monte Video on the 22nd May, 1826, and again reached Plymouth on the 14th October, 1830, the ships being there paid off. Captain King was the son of Governor King, and was the well-known Australian explorer. Captain Fitzroy commanded the " Beagle." Mr. (afterwards Admiral) John Lort Stokes, who afterwards surveyed the New Zealand coasts, was a midshipman on this voyage.

Vol. ii. Sub-title: Proceedings of the Second Expedition, | 18311836, under the Command of Captain Robert Fitzroy, R.N. Pp. xiv (1 page of directions to binder), 694 (1 page addenda). 2 charts and 25 plates (1 of New Zealanders "). The Beagle left England 27th December, 1831, and completed her circumnavigation 2nd October, 1836. Mr. Stokes was mate and assistant surveyor; Augustus Earle (q.v.), draughtsman; Charles Darwin, naturalist; Edward Main (Edmund Mein) Chaffers, master (afterwards, in 1839, appointed to command the New Zealand Company's first ship, the "Tory "); and Richard Matthews (q.v.), a missionary to the Fuegians, who afterwards re-embarked and remained in New Zealand. Chapters xxiv to xxvi relate to the Bay of Islands, where the Beagle ' remeined for the last ten days of 1835. Short account of the natives, missionaries, and traders. The appendix to Vol. ii forms a separate volume; pp. viii, 352; 2 charts, with insets, diagrams, and plates of clouds. Contains various tables, official correspondence, account of the Fuegians, and a vocabulary of their language; correspondence from and to Mr. Busby, British Resident at New Zealand, relating to Baron de Thierry; declaration of independence; and instructions from Governor Bourke.

Vol. iii.-Sub-title: Journal and Remarks. | 1832-1836. | By | Charles Darwin, Esq., M.A. | Sec. Geol. Soc. | Pp. xiv, 629; index, 7 pages (wrongly paginated 609 to 615). 2 charts (southern portion of South America, and Keeling Islands). Forms the original of the "Naturalist's Voyage round the World," which in the 2nd (1845) and still later editions was recast. 19 pages refer to New Zealand, of which Mr. Darwin formed no favourable opinion. The work was published under the superintendence of Captain Robert Fitzroy, afterwards the second Governor of New Zealand, and later known as Admiral and in charge of the Weather Bureau.

8vo. Pp. iv, 120. Appendix.

Written on Dr. Lang's fifth voyage to England, in the "Roslin Castle," which put into the Bay of Islands for a few days in a leaky state in January, 1839: 1st, demoralised Europeans are ruining a fine native race, and it is imperative Government should found a British colony on Christian principles; 2nd, a bitter diatribe on the Church missionaries and their mixed plan of evangelising; 3rd, the high suitability of New Zealand for colonisation; 4th, the best means of colonising. The appendix, "South Sea Islands," gives an account of the treatment of the Tahitians in 1838 by Du Petit-Thouars, captain of the French frigate "La Venus." Contains many little pieces of history and scandal, list of vessels visiting the Bay of Islands in 1838, and 10 pages on the origin of the Polynesians. (Vide Tait's Magazine, n.s., vi, 611.) Republished at Sydney, July, 1873, With a preface and appendix for 1873." Pp. vii, 96. Slightly recast, and substituting initials for names. List of vessels (132), Polynesian origin, and appendix omitted, with a sub

Lang, Rev. Dr. J. D.-continued.

stitution on early landsharking in New Zealand. In October, 1873, Mr. Edwin Fairburn replies in a fly-sheet to Dr. Lang's strictures upon his father, the missionary.

Dr. Lang, who was certainly of the church militant, died at Sydney, 8th August, 1878, aged 79.

Roy. 8vo. 2 vols. Vol. i: pp. 511. Vol. ii: pp. 519. 42 plates, 19 of which are coloured, and devoted to objects of natural history. The " Coquille," under the command of Captain Duperrey, visited the Bay of Islands in April, 1824, remaining fifteen days. The official history of the voyage was not published, and the only contributions to it are in these volumes and in the " Observations personelles' " of M. D'Urville, then an officer of the vessel, published in Vol. iii, p. 673, of the "Voyage of the 'Astrolabe,'" q.v. M. Lesson was naturalist of the "Coquille." His observations are general, being almost confined to an account of the natives and the language, of which there is a vocabulary, chiefly taken from Lee and Kendall's grammar, which had been published shortly before.

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Macfarlan, Rev. D. Pastoral Address by the Presbytery of Paisley, | Scottish Settlers of New Zealand, under the Ministerial Care of the Rev. John Macfarlane, ❘ late of the Martyrs Church, Paisley. | Paisley, | Printed by Alex. Gardner. | 1839.

8vo. Pp. 12. Signed by D. Macfarlan, Minister of Renfrew, 24th October, 1839.

Religious advice to departing Presbyterians who formed the first Scotch colony, and sailed for New Zealand in the "Bengal Merchant," 31st October, 1839. (Vide "Marjoribanks' Travels in New Zealand.")

After several years' charge in Wellington Mr. McFarlane became a runholder in Nelson, and there died.

MDCCCXXXIX.

8vo. Pp. vi, 360. Map of Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands.

The

A few interesting details scattered through a poor book. Account of official dealings with the last of the aboriginal Tasmanians in 1838. few pages on New Zealand are taken chiefly from the Rev. W. Yate, whose proper dismissal from the New Zealand mission was, in the author's opinion, the result of black conspiracy.

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