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1. With the arrival of the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 and subsequently the British explorer James Cook in 1769, the European world made its entry into tribal New Zealand. Tasman journeyed up the west coast of the country but did not go ashore.2.They brought Cattle , Sheep , Goats , Chickens , Horses , Cats , Dogs , Honey bees , Rabbits , Possums , Black birds , Song , Thrushes , Diseases , Tool with a steel blade and edges.3.They found a big turtle on they way there. 4.According to oral tradition, some canoes landed on the East Coast of the North Island. Whangaparāoa, at the very eastern tip of the Bay of Plenty, is often referred to as the landing place of numerous canoes, including the famous Tainui and Te Arawa. Another canoe, Mataatua, made its landfall at the mouth of the Whakatāne River. Most canoes explored the coasts, reconnoitring the land and seeking safe haven. The Tainui, for example, is said to have travelled along the Bay of Plenty coastline before journeying through the Hauraki Gulf and into the Waitematā Harbour. It then travelled up the Tāmaki River. When they could go no further, the crew set about dragging the canoe over the Tāmaki isthmus (at about Ōtāhuhu) before sailing again in the Manukau Harbour. Following that, they travelled southward to Mōkau, in King Country, before returning northward to make final landfall at a1. With the arrival of the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 and subsequently the British explorer James Cook in 1769, the European world made its entry into tribal New Zealand. Tasman journeyed up the west coast of the country but did not go ashore.2.They brought Cattle , Sheep , Goats , Chickens , Horses , Cats , Dogs , Honey bees , Rabbits , Possums , Black birds , Song , Thrushes , Diseases , Tool with a steel blade and edges.3.They found a big turtle on they way there. 4.According to oral tradition, some canoes landed on the East Coast of the North Island. Whangaparāoa, at the very eastern tip of the Bay of Plenty, is often referred to as the landing place of numerous canoes, including the famous Tainui and Te Arawa. Another canoe, Mataatua, made its landfall at the mouth of the Whakatāne River. Most canoes explored the coasts, reconnoitring the land and seeking safe haven. The Tainui, for example, is said to have travelled along the Bay of Plenty coastline before journeying through the Hauraki Gulf and into the Waitematā Harbour. It then travelled up the Tāmaki River. When they could go no further, the crew set about dragging the canoe over the Tāmaki isthmus (at about Ōtāhuhu) before sailing again in the Manukau Harbour. Following that, they travelled southward to Mōkau, in King Country, before returning northward to make final landfall at a place called Rangiāhua on the Kāwhia Harbour.5.Though a Dutchman was the first European to sight the country, it was the British who colonised New Zealand. With growing numbers of British migrant, and dwindling and largely landless Maori population British culture dominated New Zealand life throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries
