jokeeangar

Updated: June 23, 2025

For sixty years after Cook's discovery every traveller spelt these names as seemed good to him. The haven of Hokianga figures alternately as Showkianga, Sukyanna, Jokeeangar and Chokahanga. These, however, are thrown into the shade by some of the courageous attempts of the two Forsters, Cook's naturalists, at the names of native birds.

William Pember Reeves - The Long White Cloud