James Cook - A Journal of the proceedings of His Majesty's Bark Endeavour on a voyage round the world, by Lieutenant James Cook, Commander, commencing the 25th of May 1768 - 23 Oct. 1770: No. 146

New Zealand
desirous of speaking with & finding that we could not ford the River I ordered the Yawl in to carry us over & the Pinnace lay at the Entrance in the mean time the Indians made off.
[left hand column- Poverty bay] 
however we went as fas as their Hutts, which lay about 2 or 300 yards  from the water side leaving 4 boys to take care of the Yawl which we had no sooner left than 4 Men came out of the woods on the other side the River & would certainly have cut her off had not the People in the Pinnace discovered them & called to her to drop down the stream which they did being closely persued by the Indians the Coxswain of the Pinnace who had the charge of the Boats seeing this fired 2 Muskets over their Heads. the first made them stop & Look around them, but the 2d  they took no notice of upon which a third was fired & killed one of them upon the Spot just as he was going to dart his spear at the Boat at this the other 3 stood motionless for a Minute or two seemingly quite surprised wondering no doubt what it was that had thus killed their Comrade but as soon as they had recovered themselves they made off draging the Dead body a little  way & then left it upon our hearing the report  of the Musquett we immediately repaired to the Boats after viewing the Dead body we returned on board. In the morning seeing a Number of the Natives  at the same place where we them last night I went ashore with the Boats manned & armed & landed on the opposite side of the river. Mr Banks Dr Solander & my self only landed at first & went to the side of the river the natives being got together on the opposite side we called to them in the Georges Island Language but they answered us by flourishing their weapons over their heads & dancing as we supposed the War Dance: upon this we retired until the Marines  were landed which I ordered to be drawn up about 200 Yards behind us. We went again to the river side having Tupia Mr Green & Dr Munkhouse along with us Tupia spoke to them in his own Language & it was an agreeable surprise to us to find that they perfectly understood him after some little conversation had passed one of them swam over to us & after him 20 or 30 more these last brought their arms with them which the first man did not we made them everyone presents but this did not satisfy them they wanted but everything we had about us particularly our Arms & made several attempts to snatch them out of our hands Tupia told us several times as soon as they came over to take care of ourselves for they were not our friends & this we very soon found for one of them snatched Mr Greens Hanger from him & would not give it up, this incouraged the rest to be more insolent & seeing others coming over to join them I order'd the man who had taken 
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