'Head of Otegoowgoow, Son of a New Zealand Chief...' Joseph 3rd May 1993

3rd May 1993

Christ's Hospital pupil with the school buildings in the background

The disease was of eighteen month's duration

of which a description was given to the Society in 1814'

and the sun shines down above the abbey

'Head of Otegoowgoow, Son of a New Zealand Chief...' Joseph 3rd May 1993Lieutenant James Cook's party encountered Otegoowgoow in late November 1769, in New Zealand's Bay of Islands. He was wounded in the thigh by a gun fired from Endeavour. Illustration from A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, The Endeavour, by Sydney Parkinson (London, 1773), which was published posthumously. Original: engraving. 1773