Waitangi Day – What Really Happened? (Incomplete)

Approximately two hundred fifty-six years ago, the British sailor/explorer, Cptn James Cook had discovered what looked like a ‘large land, uplifted high,’ this being the lesser renowned country of the time of New Zealand or what the Maori (the original inhabitants of this “new land) had called it, Aotearoa. Meaning the land of the long white cloud in Maori. Naming it after how the early Polynesians had found such land. Via the sighting of a long white cloud. With this sighting, Cptn Cook soon took the initiative to land at Poverty Bay, which is near modern-day Gisborne. After this, things were disastrous for Cook. Two days after the landing, Cook and his crew accidentally killed a soldier after a confusing account and the day after others were either killed or wounded. Although this disastrous account, things remained okay between the two parties. Cook sailed across New Zealand to be the first to outline New Zealand. The problems actually arose when whalers, the French, several European countries, and the British crown came to New Zealand for exploitation and colonization. The main attributes all