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About 2 o'clock in the afternoon, one of our people, Nicholas Young, the surgeon's boy, descried a point of land of New
Zealand from the starboard bow at about nine leagues distance bearing west by north. We bore up to it and, at sunset, we had a good view of it. The land was high and appeared like
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to the man who first sighted land, and promised that 'that part of the coast of the said land should be named after him'. This was awarded to Young who first sighted land from the
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Biography. Nicholas Young, apprenticed to
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an island. We regaled ourselves in the evening on the occasion. The land was called ‘
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as part of the Cook
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