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A Family in Dusk Bay, New Zealand

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A Family in Dusk Bay, New Zealand
Published by Alexr Hogg and Company; Hodges, William, 1791
Black and White Engraving 211 x 335 mm
A man with a taiaha and mere seated at the trunk of a large tree on the right.
Two women seated centrally beside a stream close by; two other people moving
away in the background, with Dusky Bay’s coves and inlets beyond and dense
bush behind the people shown

Plate from Baldwyn, G A A New Royal Authentic, Complete and Universal System
of Geography, London 1794, edited by G. W. Anderson. A variant version of a drawing
in Dusky Sound by William Hodges, from James Cook’s 2nd voyage to New Zealand.