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From: "Pearl" <>
Subject: Re: [NZ] Earliest report on Europeans in NZ ?????
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 10:30:17 +1300
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This gets more interesting with every message: Which reminds me..
Anyone heard how the "Special NZGS Meeting" went???
Pearl


> Greetings
> I have a book "Chance Discovery of Australia and New Zealand by Portuguese
> and Spanish Navigators between 1521 and 1528" Roger HERVE translated from
> the French by
> John DUNMORE. Published by the DUNMORE Press Ltd Palmerston North 1983
> ISBN 0 86469 013 4.
> It mentions the discovery of a race of "white" skinned people with a
> Teutonic look
> in an area in the South Pacific called Cape of Fremose or Frimosa.
> On the Dieppe Maps drawn by John ROTZ dedicated to Henry VIII
> between 1535 and 1542."The fine Cape which is in theAustral land"
> This was also known as "Terre de l'Est"
> "Isle des Hommes Blancs" "La Joncade" "CapFremose"
> The author Herve interprets this as East Cape New Zealand.
> Food for thought Eh? Did they land? Some later maps are adorned with
"Maori"
> like figures.
> Regards
> Ivan
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