But in those days they turned with loathing from wine and spirits--as least Crozet says so.
What Captain Cook thought of the Maori is a common-place of New Zealand literature.

Every maker of books gives a version of his notes.
What the Maori thought of Captain Cook is not so widely known.

Yet it is just as interesting, and happily the picture of the great navigator as he appeared to the savages has been preserved for us.

Among the tribe living at Mercury Bay when the _Endeavour_ put in there was a boy--a little fellow of about eight years old, but possessing the name of Horeta Taniwha (Red-smeared Dragon)--no less.

The child lived through all the changes and chances of Maori life and warfare to more than ninety years of age.