So they're sail quite far south but they don't find anything

which eventually leads Cook to change course

and decide to go westward towards New Zealand or which again they already knew about they

already knew of its existence because it had been discovered by Abil-Tasmin in the early 1600s.

But Cook, when he arrived there, was the first European navigator to basically circumnavigate the entire, well both islands and again putting

his cartography skills on full display drew the most pristine detailed map of the islands and its boundaries.

Yeah and I think I think isn't it for generations it wasn't better for like well a hundred years or more yeah

a hundred and fifty years something like that yeah but obviously I'd be remiss not to mention something of the encounter with the Maori's

Right well, he's there so I think it's important to mention that the so the Tahitians the Maori, the Easter Islanders, they're all a part of the same sort of

ethnic group. They all speak a similar language. When they came from Tahiti, they actually took one of the natives on board with them called Tupia,

because Banks had become quite friendly with him and he thought it would be useful to have a translator for any of the islands

who went on and when they got to New Zealand it turned out that Tuppia and the Maori could

perfectly speak to one another. They both spoke the Polynesian language because

obviously that's where they come from. The New Zealanders are derived, the Maoris had arrived in

New Zealand in about 1300, something like that from the Polynesian islands but the Maori were in many ways like the

Tahitians in the rampant thivery or sometimes even worse they'd be it they'd be

trading and the Europeans would pass them something and then they just bolt and not

give hand over the thing that they

obviously said they were going to trade in.

People say sorry just a quick saying to say oh that's just their culture was it?

Oh they're just thieves. Yeah, or they didn't understand property right? So, what is it that?

Or are they just cheeky bastards?

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