Our Learning Of Tupaia and Captain Cook

Recently, in our class we have been learning about Tupaia and his journey with Captain Cook to discover New Zealand. We watch a few short videos and a documentary about how Captain Cook and his journey and relationship with Tupaia and how they discovered New Zealand. We learnt about who Tupaia was and he history. 

Tupaia was a young man from Tahiti. He was a warrior, a navigator, a high priest and was one of the men who joined Captain Cook on the Endevour. We learnt about how Tupaia wanted to take a route to New Zealand by going west and visiting islands to restock fresh food and rest and then drop down south using the current, but Captain Cook had been given a secret route that they ended up going and some people on board suffered from scurvy.  

We also learnt about how they arrived in New Zealand after 55 days at sea. When Captain Cooks crew arrived there was already people there. 2 members of Captain Cooks crew where made warning shots with a gun but the Maori people did not have the technology like guns and where unsure what they were and kept coming. This resulted in Captain Cooks crew shooting the cheif of the Maori.