HISTORY OF THREE KINGS
VISiT Or ABEL TASMAN Auckland students of New Zealand history are showing further interest in the account of the visit of tho Dutch navigator, Abel Jansen Tusman, to tho Three Kings Islands in 1643 and the recorded sketches of his impressions. Tasman portrayed natives of enormous stature, compared with their surroundings, as having been on tho main island, Manawa-tnwi, and their exaggerated size caused a suggestion to be made at a Wellington Historical Society lecture that moas could havo been mistaken for men. The popular explanation for the strangeness of the sketches is that weather circumstances exaggerated size of the natives. Another theory which is being pursued by comparing contempoz-ary drawings is that disproportionate sketches were not uncommon in Tasman's time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21250, 2 August 1932, Page 8
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