In his extreme old age he would still tell of how he saw Kapene Kuku--Captain Cook.

Once he told his story to Governor Wynyard, who had it promptly taken down.

Another version is also printed in one of Mr.John White's volumes.[1] The two do not differ in any important particular.

The amazing apparition of the huge white-winged ship with its crew of goblins, and what they said, and what they did, and how they looked, had remained clearly photographed upon the retina of Taniwha's mind's-eye for three-quarters of a century.

From his youth up he had, of course, proudly repeated the story.