The New Zealand Wars: The History and Legacy of the British Empires Conflicts with the Indigenous Mori Audiobook Libro.fm

In 1769 Captain James Cooks historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia but before he reached Australia he sailed near New Zealand and spent weeks mapping part of New Zealands coast Thus he was also one of the first to observe and take note of the indigenous peoples of the two islands His instructions from the Admiralty were to endeavor at all costs to cultivate friendly relations with tribes and peoples he might encounter and to regard any native people as the natural and legal possessors of any land they were found to occupy Cook of course was not engaged on an expedition of colonization so when he encountered for the first time a war party of Mori he certainly had no intention of challenging their overlordship ofAotearoa although he certainly was interested in discovering more about them