Brava Island was settled by an American and a Portuguese whaler. The latter was my great-great-grandfather and was named Goomes. He came from Brava Island in the Cape Verde Group which is how this Island got its name. The buildings in the picture are the two men's cottages. They married local Maori women with my GtGtGF marrying Joanna Antoni(Kamaku)of Ngai Tahu. Billy Connolly mentioned the men in his "World Tour of New Zealand" TV show, talking about how they jumped ship and lived in a cave on the island for a few years before building the cottages. Christopher Aubrey was a painter, also an American I believe, who was passing through when he painted this watercolour. At some point my ancestors left the island and my Grandmother grew up in Invercargill. She visited Brava in 2002, not long before she died.