Note 3, Page 57.

“That Ancient who
Of late departed life,—who in his youth
Was witness to Cook’s visit, an event
Auspicious, though to all its full extent
He no conception had!”

The native alluded to, was called Te Tanewha. He was the last of Captain Cook’s Maori contemporaries, he died during the year 1853. It is said that he was a youth of 12 or 13 years of age when first he beheld the wonderous spectacle of a foreign visitor, in October, 1769.”