'Head of Otegoowgoow, Son of a New Zealand Chief...' Joseph Rhine-Palatinate

Rhine-Palatinate

'Washing the Blackamoor white'

Christ's Hospital pupil with the school buildings in the background

as two fishermen returning from their outing

He is the image of the disgruntled servant who

'Head of Otegoowgoow, Son of a New Zealand Chief...' Joseph Rhine-PalatinateLieutenant James Cook's party encountered Otegoowgoow in late November 1769, in New Zealand's Bay of Islands. He was wounded in the thigh by a gun fired from Endeavour. Illustration from A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, The Endeavour, by Sydney Parkinson (London, 1773), which was published posthumously. Original: engraving. 1773