Travels in New Zealand: With a Map of the CountryCapper Press, 1973 - 174 pages Majoribanks, a Scottish writer, arrived in New Zealand in 1840. He describes the Boyd and Wairau massacres, and Maori cannibalism. |
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Page 62
... British , and about a 1000 natives . The number of good houses , and stores , & c . built by the British , is now estimated at 800 , besides 400 native huts . The natives , seeing how much more comfortable the English houses are than ...
... British , and about a 1000 natives . The number of good houses , and stores , & c . built by the British , is now estimated at 800 , besides 400 native huts . The natives , seeing how much more comfortable the English houses are than ...
Page 127
... British party , as to the momentary feelings of revenge which actuated the conduct of an excited , and most ferocious savage . The natives were proved to have been in the act of retreating when some of our party were observed by them to ...
... British party , as to the momentary feelings of revenge which actuated the conduct of an excited , and most ferocious savage . The natives were proved to have been in the act of retreating when some of our party were observed by them to ...
Page 142
... British , and more particularly with Rauperaha and Rangihaiata , and their tribes . Exulting at the victory which they have obtained , mainly owing to the cowardice of the Eng- lish party , and overjoyed to find that the British ...
... British , and more particularly with Rauperaha and Rangihaiata , and their tribes . Exulting at the victory which they have obtained , mainly owing to the cowardice of the Eng- lish party , and overjoyed to find that the British ...
Contents
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CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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