[A fortified town or village called a Hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga, New Zealand].

Description

View of Te Puta o Paretauhinu at Mercury Bay not Tolaga Bay, from James Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour.

From the official British Admiralty sanctioned edition of the accounts of Cook’s firstvoyage and the first and most superior issue of this engraving.

 ‘After breakfast we all went ashore to see an Indian Fort or Eppah.. We went to a bay where were two, we landed first near a small one the most beautifuly romantick thing I ever saw. It was built on a small rock detached from the main and surroundd at high water, the top of this was fencd round with rails after their manner but was not large enough to contain above 5 or 6 houses; the whole appeared totally inaccessible to any animal who was not furnished with wings.’
Banks, Journal I, 431-1, 12 November 1769.

From Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,…