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Found by the late H. H. Pain. In Europe, there are the when he explored the northwest coast of Australia,
Danube, the Danaster (D'niester), the Danapris from Arnhem Land to the 22nd degree of latitude to
(D'nieper), the Russian Don, the Rhodan (now the Shark's Bay. Here explorer Dirk Hartog in 1616 had
Rhone), Danzig on the Co-dan Gulf (now the Baltic), sailed his Dutch ship Endraght and landed there, leav-
and Denmark or Danmark (Dan's Land). There is a river ing on the isle an engraved tin plate to record his visit.
Don in Aberdeenshire and another in Yorkshire. On the He attempted landings at Cape Ford, near Victoria
latter stands Doncaster which, on an old map, is spelt River, also in Roebuck Bay, and again near Dampier's
Doncastre, Devonshire, again, is the modern name for Archipeligo. But the menacing aspect of the natives
Dannonia. In Ireland there are, among many others: prevented his seeing much of the country. The result
Dundalk, Donegal and Donaghadee -- the last name, was that for half a century thereafter, no new discover-
translated, becoming "Dan my witness." Dan, noted for ies were made. However, because of his adventures the
its maritime activities (Judges 5, 17), also left its name island of Tasmania was named after him, whilst the
along the Mediterranean coast. The three outstanding name "New Zealand" was fixed upon that fascinating
examples are Mauritania (the northern African coast land.
of Algeria) which, in the Hebrew, means a settlement
or colony of Dan; and Sardinia (Sar-don-i) meaning In 1769-70 Captain James Cook, from England, char-
emigrant, dispersed or detached Danites. Keatings, in tered the coasts of the beautiful islands of New Zea-
his History of Ireland, tells us that: "The Dan-ans were land. But the Crown of England was not altogether
a people of great learning and wealth: they left Greece eager to annex this savage-held territory lying on the
after a battle with the Assyrians and went to Ireland and other side of the world from the home ports of the
also to Danmark, and called it Danmares, Dan's Royal Navy. However English adventurers and English
country." missionaries changed the picture. British whalers ar-
rived, to kill whales and to cut the virgin forests of
A bold seafaring people, they had to fight their way kauri trees. The British missionaries, anxious to save
into the Isles of Britain against the strenuous opposi- souls, took the matter out of the king's hands. These
tion of their kinsmen, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. missionaries were carrying out the commands of Ye-
They came across the North Sea, during the ninth and shua (Christ) to "go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
tenth centuries, from Denmark and Scandinavia -- al- baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
though a colony of them went to Ireland at a much ear- son, and of the holy ghost (spirit of YEHOVAH):
lier date. Both these place names contain the teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
appellative "Dan." It is highly probable that many of commanded you."
these Danes were Danites, who were in the habit of
naming places "after the name of Dan, their father." Af- While these missionaries were lacking in many Bibli-
ter a long struggle with the Saxon kingdom, which was cal truths, they followed a commission that had been
predominant under Alfred the Great, the Danes under laid upon Israel in particular -- the missionizing agency
Canute gained the upper hand and the kingdom became which was made of God's chosen people, Israel. Having
gradually welded together -- ready for the final con- assembled themselves in the Appointed "Place" of the
solidation under William the Conqueror when the rear- British Isles and having fed upon the Word of God for
guard of wandering Israel arrived in the Appointed over a thousand years, they began to depart for other
Place. continents and to spread the Gospel of the "good news"
of the Kingdom of God in the earth's farthest reaches.
-- Wake Up! January 1980. In 1642 they discovered New Zealand and by 1814
they were preaching some of the Bible truths to the
New Zealand -- One of Scripture's Maoris living there. Unfortunately, they chose the pa-
gan holiday of Christmas to first preach the Christian
Young Lions Gospel in the North Island. In that same year (1814)
the New Zealand Company planted the first organized
When the Dutchman Abel Tasman, discoverer of New English settlement near Cook Strait. Later, in 1840, a
Zealand, arrived there in 1642 he found a beautiful is- group of Maori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi,
land whose shore was teeming with a shouting crowd which granted to the Maoris the land which they wished
of fancifully tattooed native people. Brandishing huge to retain and full rights as British subjects.
clubs, the natives did not seem too friendly; so Tasman
sailed on. Two years later he made another attempt

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