Chapter 36 Thirty-six man-eating shores

The next day, January 27, the passengers of the McCarley boarded and lived in cramped cabins.The owner did not give up his room to the female guest, and it was not clean.At twelve o'clock sharp, the ship weighed anchor due to low tide.With a mild southwesterly wind, the sails were pulled up.Wilson wants to help the five crew members, but Halle turns him down.Now that the owner of the ship has made such a statement, he has no choice but to stay out of trouble. At this time, the five crew members hoisted the sail amidst the owner's scolding.The Mercalli was set up for seagoing, with rigging all on the port side; lowsails, foresails, topsails, gaffsails, tacksails, and many smaller and jibsails were hoisted.Looking at its bloated bow, wide bottom and bulky stern, you can tell that it is a typical old duck-style slow boat.

In spite of this, if there is no accident, the ship can sail into the port of Auckland in at most five to six days.At this moment, I had no choice but to be patient. At seven o'clock in the evening the stationary lighthouses of the Australian coast and Eden Harbor were out of sight.The waves were quite big, the ship moved very slowly, and the turbulence was severe. The passengers stayed in the cabin in a well-behaved manner, as if they were in prison. Everyone is thinking.Very few people spoke.Glenarvan couldn't sit still, walked up and down, while the major remained motionless.Meng Geer came to the deck to observe the wind and waves from time to time.Robert followed.As for the geographer, he was talking alone in a corner, not knowing what to say.

What is he thinking?The venerable geographer was thinking of New Zealand, to which fate dictated.He silently reviewed the entire history of New Zealand, and the entire past of this ghost place appeared before his eyes again. In the history of New Zealand, have the two islands of New Zealand been regarded as the mainland?He was thinking about the explanation of the document. Contin, contin, he always said that, this word is the mainland [Note: continent. 】ah! The passage of those navigators who discovered the two large islands in the southern sea came to him again. It was December thirteenth, 1642, and on the seventeenth day after the Dutchman Tasman had discovered the land of Vendimen, the ship sailed into a large bay, which ended in a strait between two islands.

North Island Yikanamawei, which is a local language, means the fish of Mawei.The name of the South Island is Mahaipu Namu, which means the whale that produces green jade. Tasman sent some skiffs ashore and brought back two canoes with some rowdy natives in them.Both were of medium build, brown skinned, bony, with stern voices, and black hair coiled on top of their heads with a large, long white feather. A first meeting between a European and a native seems to create a lasting friendship.But the next day, when one of Tasman's boats was exploring the nearby coast for an anchorage, it was violently attacked by seven canoes full of natives.The bosun took a shot in the throat and jumped overboard for his life.Four of the remaining six were killed, and the remaining two escaped with the boatswain.

After this, Tasman retaliated with a few shots and quickly sailed away.The bay is still called Slaughter Bay.Tasman headed north along the west coast of Slaughter Bay and moored near North Cape on January 5.The waves here are fierce and people are fierce, and he is not allowed to go ashore to replenish fresh water; he decided to leave this land and named it Statenland, which literally translates as Sanmindi, in memory of the three-level representative of priests, nobles, and commoners called Sanmin taken by the meeting of the council. He also thought he had discovered a continent in the southern part of South America.But, geographers thought, a seventeenth-century sailor might have mistaken New Zealand for the mainland, but a nineteenth-century sailor would never!It is incomprehensible to say that Captain Grant made a mistake!

In the 100 years after the Tasman, New Zealand seemed to have ceased to exist. Later, a French navigator, Xu Erwei, discovered this piece of land at 35 degrees 37 minutes south latitude.At first he had no complaints against the natives; but an unusually violent gale, followed by a torrential rain, blew the sick boat to the shore of the Bay of Refuge.There, a man named Naji.The chief of the slave clothes received the Frenchmen kindly, and entertained them in his house.Everything was fine until Xu Erwei found out that his boat had been stolen.Xu Erwei wanted to get the boat back, but he couldn't get it back. He felt that it was necessary to punish this kind of theft, so he set fire to a whole village.This is an unjust and cruel revenge!The retaliatory bloodshed that occurred in New Zealand later had something to do with this retaliation.

The famous Captain Cook appeared on this coast on October 6, 1769.He moored his Endeavor in Taveroa Bay, trying to bribe the natives with small favors.However, small favors can only be given if a few natives are caught first.Cook did not hesitate to capture two or three natives first, and then forced them to accept some favors.These natives received preferential treatment and gifts, and were finally sent back to land.They went back to publicize the matter, and soon, several more wanted to do business with the Europeans, and the natives voluntarily ran to the ship.A few days later, Cook sailed the boat to Hawke's Bay on the east coast of the North Island.There he met many aggressive, clamoring, challenging natives.Their swaggering presence forced Cook to fire a cracker to calm them down.

On October 20, the Endeavor stopped in Tocomaro Bay, home to two hundred peaceful inhabitants.Here the botanists on board made some fruitful expeditions, and the natives brought them ashore in their own canoes.Cook visited two villages surrounded by wooden fences, blockhouses and double ditches. These buildings show that the natives have a good knowledge of construction.The most important fortress was built on a rock which at the time of the tide was an island, and more than an island, for not only was it surrounded by water, but it also had a hole in it like an arch, sixty feet high. , the water roared below, and on top of the arch was the unclimbable fort.During his five-month stay there, Cook collected native flora, curiosities, and ethnographic studies, and then, on March 31, set the strait that separates the two islands with his own The name is named.left New Zealand.On subsequent voyages he also visited New Zealand.

Yes, the great sailor came to Hawke's Bay again in 1773, and this time he witnessed cannibalism. Cook especially likes this area, and he wants to complete the hydrographic survey in this area.So here he was again on his third voyage.He left the area on February 25, 1777, and has not been back since. In 1791, Van Chow came to Dark Bay and anchored for twenty days, making no contribution to geography or natural history.In 1793 Dental Gasto measured twenty-five miles off the northern coast of Ekanamawe.The captains of the Merchant Marines, Dalrymple and Hosen, and later Patton, Moody, and Richardson all visited these places. Finally, Dr. Safarqi also stayed here for five weeks and collected interesting customs about New Zealanders. A lot of information to get used to.

In 1805, the year of Patton's arrival, Duarata, nephew of the wise Chief Jihu, boarded the Argo, which was anchored in the Bay of Islands and commanded by Patton. If the Maori had a great poet like Homer, perhaps this adventure of Duatara could be written into another epic.His odyssey is full of disasters, abuses and grievances.Discrimination, imprisonment, beatings, and trauma were all the rewards of this poor native's conscientious service.How should he feel about those who call themselves civilized!He was brought to London as a basic sailor, but he became the punching bag of the whole crew.If the Reverend Marsden had not saved him, he would have died of hard work.The clergyman, finding the honesty of character, soundness of judgment, gentleness, kindness, and grace, in the young native, took great care for him.Marsden gave him several sacks of wheat seeds and some farming tools, and asked him to go back to his hometown to farm.Unexpectedly, these things were stolen.Poor Duatala suffered again until 1814.This year he finally returned to his hometown to start a family and start a business.He was about to reap the fruits of his years of hard work, he was about to transform New Zealand with his own hands, when he died suddenly, at the age of twenty-eight!It is indisputable that the death of this intelligent, kind, patriotic, kind-hearted young native delayed the culture of New Zealand for many years and was an irreparable loss.

New Zealand was again ignored until 1816.There was Sampson in this year, Nicola in 1817, and Marsden in 1819. They all went to these two islands and traveled a part of the area. In 1820, a man named Cruise The captain of the Eighty-Fourth Infantry Regiment lived on the island for ten months, studied the customs and habits of the natives, and made great contributions to science. In 1824, the captain of the Shell was sent to anchor in the Bay of Islands for fifteen days. He expressed his satisfaction with the local natives. Later, in 1827, because of robbery and murder, the British whaling ship Mercury came here and had to take defensive measures.In the same year, Captain Dillon came twice and received the most hospitable hospitality from the natives. In March, 1827, the captain of the Astrolabo, the famous Courmont Juville, spent several nights unarmed on land with the natives; Gifts, learned native songs, measured useful maps. On the contrary, in the second year, the British brig Howth sailed to the East Cape after arriving in the Bay of Islands. His commander James encountered a treacherous chief named Analaro, and suffered a big loss. They all died there. From the above-mentioned contradictions, from the behavior of the natives who are sometimes kind and sometimes barbaric, we can draw a conclusion that most of the cruelty of the New Zealanders is revenge.They treat people well or badly according to how good or bad the captain is.An Englishman named El, who has traveled around the world countless times, is a wandering scientist.When he came to these two islands, he himself did not suffer from the natives, but he saw them cannibalizing human flesh and the New Zealanders devouring each other. In 1831, Captain Rabs also saw this kind of horror of natives eating natives in the Bay of Islands.The natives fought much better, and the savages already knew how to use firearms, and used them with great accuracy.Therefore, there are many places on Ekanamawe Island that were so densely populated and prosperous in the past, but now they have become very desolate.Some tribes were even wiped out entirely. Unlike the weak Australians, New Zealanders will not run away from European aggression, they can resist, they can defend themselves, they hate the invaders, and it is this incomprehensible hatred that is driving them and the British immigrants fight. The whole history of New Zealand was thus recalled by Paganel.The more he thought about it, the more impetuous his emotions became.However, in the whole history, there is nothing that allows him to add the name of the mainland to this place composed of two islands. There may be a few words in the document that inspired him, but the word contin is firmly blocked. His train of thought kept him unable to think of a new explanation. On January 31st, it had been four days since she sailed, and the Megali hadn't made it two-thirds of the way in the narrow sea between Australia and New Zealand.Captain Halley seldom asked about the ship: he left it to the sailors.The rough fellow was always getting drunk with barley or brandy, and the sailors followed suit, and the Mercalli was left to its fate. This dereliction of duty forced Menger to take care of him.More than once, the boat flashed and almost capsized, and Murady and Wilson scrambled to right the tiller.The owner of the ship sometimes interfered with them both, and even swore.Murady and Wilson didn't have that much patience. They kept demanding that the drunk be tied up and thrown to the bottom of the cargo hold, and they would release him when they reached their destination.But Meng Geer stopped them and managed to calm them down with great difficulty. Even so, Menger was still apprehensive about the ship's situation; however, so as not to disturb Glenarvan, he only mentioned it behind his back to the major and Paganel.McNabbs gave him the same idea as Murady and Wilson, but the wording was different. If you think it would do you any good, John, said McNabbs, you should not hesitate to take command of the ship, or, if you prefer not to take command, steer. The boat is ready.That drunkard, after we disembark in Oakland, let him be his captain as usual, and let him capsize if he likes to capsize. "Certainly, Mr. MacNabbs," replied John, "I must do as you say, if I must."For now, we just take care of it. Can't you pilot the port yourself?asked Paganel. Difficult, replied John, not even a nautical map on board! Really? real.Halle was too familiar with this part of the country, he didn't need to figure out the course at all. He must have thought, said Paganel, that his ship would know its way itself, and that no one should. Huh, huh, if Harley didn't wake up when he got close to land, he'd really give us a hard time. Hope he wakes up then.Paganel said. Having said that, McNabbs asked, can't you take the Mercalli to Oakland if necessary? It would not be possible without that map with the coast.The reefs are several meters below the water. No matter how strong a boat is, it will be over as soon as the keel touches it. Once the ship is destroyed, the people on board have no other choice but to climb ashore?asked the major. Only to climb ashore, Mr. McNabbs, and there must be time. Climbing to the shore is also dangerous!Paganel replied, because the coast of New Zealand does not tolerate outsiders. If you can't go ashore, you will die, but if you go ashore, you still can't live! You mean those Maori on the coast are tough, don't you, Mr. Paganel?Menger asked. yes my friend.Those Maori are smart, easy to kill, and they like to eat human flesh. They are well-known in the Indian Ocean region.They are not like those timid and honest Australian natives, and they should not be expected to have the slightest pity when they fall into their hands. So, asked the major, if Captain Grant had sunk off the coast of New Zealand, would you have advised people not to look for it? Along the coast it was all right, Paganel said, because there might be a little trace of the Britannia along the coast.But it is not necessary to go ashore in vain to search inland. Any European who ventures in these treacherous regions is bound to fall into the hands of the Maori, and once captive it is all over.I have persuaded my friends to cross the steppes of Argentina and across Australia, but I dare not drag them to those dead roads in New Zealand.May God guide us!May God keep us from ever falling into the hands of these cruel natives! New Zealand's reputation is so appalling that nearly every advance in its history of discovery has been a bloody anniversary.No wonder Paganel was so frightened. The bloody record of navigators killed in New Zealand begins with five sailors from the Tasman, all killed and eaten.Afterwards the same fate befell Captain Toquenay and all his canoeing crew.Five fishermen from the Schnekov were also killed at the hands of the natives near the eastern side of the Faufort Strait.Before describing the death of Captain Malloron, who is notoriously tragic, we must mention some other victims.For example, four people on the brig Brothers were assassinated in the port of Maurina, and several deserters on the Matilda, and several soldiers under General Gaze were all killed at the hands of the natives. Marion was the captain of a French warship.He arrived in the Bay of Islands on May 11, 1772, after Cook's first trip.His Masgaran and Captain Krause's Catley were anchored in this bay.The hypocritical New Zealanders were very hospitable to the newcomers with an air of timidity.In order to get acquainted with the situation on board, they gave gifts and help to the captain and the crew, and called each other brothers and sisters every day. Taguli is their chief, a very cunning man. According to Ju Mengjuweier, he is a relative of the native who was kidnapped by Xu Erwei treacherously two years ago, and belongs to the Wangjiaroa tribe. . It is a Maori custom to wash off with blood when insulted.In such a country, Taguli naturally couldn't forget the humiliation suffered by his tribe last time.Patiently, he quietly waited for the European ship, looking for an opportunity to take revenge, and he actually realized his revenge plan. As a first step, he feigned fear towards the French.Then he carefully arranged a set of false appearances to lull the French and make them relax their vigilance.Often it was night, and he and his companions were still on board.They pick the best fish for the boat.Sometimes their wives and daughters come with them.Soon they found out the names of the officials and invited them to visit their villages.These phenomena puzzled Captain Ma Lirong and Krause.Just wandered on the coast with four thousand inhabitants.Everywhere natives came to welcome them unarmed, trying to win their absolute confidence. Captain Malion anchored the ship in the Bay of Islands because of the recent storms.Some of the Callitelli's masts were badly damaged, and he wanted to replace some of them, so he searched inland for wood, and on the 23rd of May, two leagues from the coast, he found They found a wood, full of tall cypress trees, and near the wood was a little bay a league from their boat. So a workshop was built there, and two-thirds of the crew were sent there, armed with axes and other implements, to cut trees and make a way to the little bay.In addition to this work site, two strongholds were selected: one stronghold was on the small island in the center of Maotuaro Harbor, where the sick, coopers, and blacksmiths on board were concentrated; the other stronghold was on land, just On the shore of the ocean, a league and a half from the ship, the second stronghold was the woodworks.Many strong, amiable natives helped the sailors in various positions in various positions. stop here.Captain Ma Lirong did not completely ignore his guard.The natives were unarmed, and the boats that sent the canoes ashore were often fully armed.The behavior of the natives confused them, and they disarmed. Captain Krause tried to persuade Ma Lirong to take back his order, but was refused. From then on, the New Zealanders became more attentive, and they got along very closely with the officials on board.When Ma Lirong came to land for an official visit, all the natives respected him as the great chief, and put four white feathers in his hair to show their reverence. Thirty-three days.The mast building was going well; the ship's reservoir was also being filled at the freshwater field on Mutualo Island. At two o'clock in the afternoon, June 12th, the Malion boat was ready.Go fishing at the foot of the village of Taguli as scheduled.He got into the boat, and with him two officers, Frederick and Lew, a volunteer, the instructor, and twelve sailors.Taguli and five other chiefs accompanied him.No one would have guessed that a terrible disaster would befall sixteen of these seventeen Europeans. The boat left the ship and rowed towards land.The boat left the ship and rowed towards land, and in a few moments it was out of sight of both ships. In the evening, it was supposed that Captain Malloron must have gone to the carpentry and spent the night there, and no one was troubled by his absence. Next day, at five o'clock, the Catley went to Matura Island to fetch fresh water.It encountered no accident and rowed back as usual.At nine o'clock, the sailors on duty on the Masgaran rescued a man who had no strength at all. This person is Turney, a sailor brought by Captain Ma Lirong.He was wounded in the waist and was stabbed twice by an iron spear.Among the seventeen people who left the ship yesterday, he was the only one who escaped back. Everyone asked him what happened after he left, and he immediately told everyone the horrific tragedy in detail. The unfortunate boat was on the edge of the village at seven o'clock in the morning.The natives greeted the guests happily, and the natives carried the guests ashore.After that, the French dispersed separately.Immediately, many natives came running towards them with long spears and sticks, and ten of them beat one of them, and they all died.Only the sailor Turney, stabbed twice in the waist, escaped from the enemy and hid in the bushes.When the natives were not on guard, they ran into the sea. The incident horrified the crews of both warships.A cry of revenge sounded.But the people in the three strongholds on the shore must be rescued first.Now, there are still three strongholds on the shore surrounded by thousands of murderous barbarians who can eat people. Captain Krautzer spent the night at the carpentry yesterday.He hadn't returned yet, and the chief officer, Gucremore, took emergency measures on his behalf.The Masgalan's canoe was sent out with an officer and a troop of soldiers.Go to the rescue of the woodworkers.Advancing along the coast they found Captain Malloron's ship, and disembarked there. As stated earlier, Captain Krautzer, who was not on board the warship at the time, knew nothing of the massacre.At two o'clock in the afternoon, he suddenly saw a group of soldiers, and he immediately felt that something was wrong.He went forward to meet him, only then did he know the real situation.In order not to alarm the partners.He forbade breaking the news to them. At that time, the barbarians occupied all the highlands.Captain Krautzer ordered the tools to be dismantled, the secondary ones to be buried, and the dormitories to be burned, before retreating with sixty men. The natives chased after him, shouting: Taguli killed Ma Lirong!To make the sailors terrified when they heard that their chief was killed.With difficulty, Krautzer restrained the angry sailors from running back to hit those nasty creatures.At last the two leagues were covered.This group of soldiers arrived at the coast, and together with the people from the second stronghold, they boarded several large boats that were waiting on the shore in advance.When they reached the shore and boarded the boat, a thousand or so natives sat motionless on the ground.But as soon as the big boat sailed into the sea, stones rained down, and four sailors shot at the shore, killing the chief of the natives. As soon as Captain Krautzer boarded the Masgaran, he immediately sent a large canoe to the island of Matuaro, where a detachment of soldiers stayed overnight, and the sick returned to the ship. The next day, another team of soldiers came to the island to increase defense.The French attacked the village, killed all six chiefs, and set fire to the village.The work of replenishing fresh water is still going on as usual. Finally, everything is done.All that was left to do was to scout out if any of the sixteen were still alive, and to avenge the dead.So a large boat carried many soldiers to Taguli's village.The vicious and cowardly chief fled with Captain Malloron's coat on his shoulders.In Tagulli's house, a freshly burnt skull was found, with teeth marks on it; a human leg was worn on a wooden skewer; another stiff-collared shirt, covered in blood, belonged to Ma Lirong. ; there were also some clothes, Frederick's pistol, the coat of arms of the boat, and some tattered strips of cloth.In another village, many people's intestines were found, all washed and cooked. After collecting the evidence of murder and cannibalism, the remains were respectfully buried; then the village was set on fire.On July 14, 1772, two warships left this miserable coastal area. New Zealanders have always been unfaithful and like to eat people.Cook confirmed this on his second trip to New Zealand in 1773. The following is the tragic experience of Captain Cook: On December 17, under his command, a ship called Adventure under the command of Captain Vono, set off a large canoe to land, with the purpose of gathering some weeds.The boat never came back.A second lieutenant and nine seamen went ashore.Captain Verno was very worried, so he sent Lieutenant Bonet to find them.Bo Nei arrived at the place where the boat landed.According to Bonet's report, a scene of massacre and barbarism was found, which is horrific to tell; the heads, intestines, and lungs of several of our companions were scattered on the sand, and several dogs were devouring them. Before closing this bloody record, we should also mention the attack of the Brother by the New Zealanders in 1815 and the murder of the entire crew of the Boyd under Sampson in 1820.Finally, on March 1, 1892, the chief of Vajita, Analaro, robbed the British brig Howth in Sydney, and his band of natives killed several sailors and drove the The corpses were cooked and eaten. This man-eating coast of New Zealand is where the Macquarie, commanded by a drunk and piloted by a fool, is going!