The Life of Captain James Cook, The Circumnavigator

Cook turned northwards, in order to get better weather and then to push
west. The continuous swell convinced him there was no large body of land to the south for many leagues and on 7th October the North Island of New Zealand, never before approached from the east by Europeans, was seen by a boy named Nicholas Young, the servant of Mr Perry, surgeon's mate.

 

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