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Some account of New Zealand

exactly the same which when first I began to learn the language producd many dificulties & mistakes

From the similarity of Customs  the still greater of Traditions & the almost identical sameness of Language between these people & those of the Islands in the South Sea there remains little doubt that they came originaly from the same source but where that Source is future experience may teach us  at Present I can say no more than that I firmly beleive that it is to the Eastward Westward & by no means to the West East.
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1 Tho Tasmans Long: of Cape Maria Van Dieman comes so near the truth our seamen affirm & seem to make it appear that he errd no Less than 4º = 49' in running from the first land he made to Cape Maria van Dieman if so his exactness must be attributed more to than skill - 

11 the People who mentioned Teratu to us pointed as we thought always inland but since the countrey has been laid down upon paper it appears that over the land in that direction lays the bay of Plenty  from hence it appears probable that this is the residence of Teratu & if so the countrey in land will probably be found to be quite void of inhabitants

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