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In narrow straits!

"Not liking the anchorage—and captains familiar with Dusky Sound say that it is a very bad one—Captain James Cook in command of the ‘HMS Resolution’ and his first lieutenant, Pickersgill, went out in different directions to look for a better. Both were successful, but Cook preferred his officer's discovery on the S.E. side of the bay, and the next morning the Resolution was worked over to the place Cook named ‘Pickersgill Harbour’ in honor of its discoverer."

“Entering by the beautiful narrow channel between Crayfish Island and the mainland, Cook moored the Resolution “in a small creek, moored head and stern, so near the shore as to reach it with a brow or stage, which Nature had in a manner prepared for us in a large tree, whose end or top reached our gunwale."

excerpts from - Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand

Note: I invite everyone to view the set and read "The Sounds of History" at: www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=sets

Taken on: January 4, 2007

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