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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... English families , amongst whom the marriages have been prolific to a very extraordinary degree of a most healthy progeny , they conclude that the God of the English is removing the aboriginal inhabitants to make room for them ; and it ...
... English families , amongst whom the marriages have been prolific to a very extraordinary degree of a most healthy progeny , they conclude that the God of the English is removing the aboriginal inhabitants to make room for them ; and it ...
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... English so cruelly at the Wairoa , after they had ceased fighting , and had trusted to your honour , has made my heart very dark , has filled my mind with gloom . Tell me your story , that I may compare it with the English , and know ...
... English so cruelly at the Wairoa , after they had ceased fighting , and had trusted to your honour , has made my heart very dark , has filled my mind with gloom . Tell me your story , that I may compare it with the English , and know ...
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... English law , your case was different . Had this been all , had a struggle caused loss of life in the fight , -wrong and bad as it would have been in the sight of God , - I could not have blamed you so much as the English . " The very ...
... English law , your case was different . Had this been all , had a struggle caused loss of life in the fight , -wrong and bad as it would have been in the sight of God , - I could not have blamed you so much as the English . " The very ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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