Grass cove near where a monument to Captain stands today, was the fight that ended the lives of ten men of the HMS Adventurer's crew.
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Before CaptainTobias Furneaux could leave Ship's Cove, a fight broke out between Adventure's crew and the local Māori people, in which ten crewmen and two Māoris were killed. This was reportedly prompted by an unknowing breach of tapu by a sailor, who placed a tin can that had held food on a chief's head.[4] Alternatively, it may have been due to a barter gone wrong at Grass Cove on 17 Dec. 1773, and Kahura taking revenge (utu).[5]Adventure set out for home on 22 December 1773 via Cape Horn,
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