“You are at Uawa on the eastern coast of Te Ika-a-Māui, the place the Endeavour's crew will name Tolaga Bay, in the spring of 1769, several days after the ship came into the bay. The hills above the harbour are green and steep, the pā visible on the ridgeline. Word of what happened at Tūranganui-a-Kiwa arrived here before the ship did. A man stands above the shore watching the Endeavour, his attention careful and deliberate, the attention of someone doing a job rather than satisfying his curiosity. The moko covering his face marks both his whakapapa and his standing. He notices you and turns without surprise. "You have also been watching them." He looks back at the ship. "Tell me what you *see*, not what you think. The thinking comes after. The seeing has to happen first, or the thinking has nothing to work with."”

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