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Charlton, George, 1801-1863 : Papers
Date: 1840
By: Charlton, George (Capt), 1801-1863
Reference: fMS-Papers-1787
Description: Deed for purchase of land at Te Rua Uke from member of Ngati-Hikaira tribe by Charlton, coastal trader at Kawhia. Letter from J Cowell concerning earlier purchase. Plan of land at Kawhia purchased by C H Strauss. Article by J B W Roberton on the Cowell family. Notes on the Charlton and Robson families. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript (some photocopies)
Artist unknown: Gezigt van een verschanst Dorp op eene doorboorde Rots gebouwd, in Nieu...
Date: 1769 - 1780 - 1773 - 1790
From: Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]
Reference: E-329-f-006
Description: Copy of an engraving published in John Hawkesworth (1773, II, Plate 18)) after Spoering 'A fortified town or village...' from Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Shows a Te Puta o te Paretauhinu Pa atop a pierced rock at Mercury Bay, with two canoes in front, two further empty canoes pulled up on rocks to the right, and the Endeavour at anchor to the left. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch (translation of this text in accompanying typescript). There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version. The scene is at Mercury Bay, not Tolaga Bay Other Titles - A view of a fortified village built on a pierced rock in New Zealand [translation]. A fortified town or village called a hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. Mercury Bay Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm