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 67
... district , thirty miles from Mount Eg- mont . This district , from being the finest in that country , has been called the " Garden of New Zea- land . " The Company would probably have placed their chief town there , instead of Port ...
... district , thirty miles from Mount Eg- mont . This district , from being the finest in that country , has been called the " Garden of New Zea- land . " The Company would probably have placed their chief town there , instead of Port ...
Page 71
... district , into the country on both sides of Cook's Straits , and the natives at Port Nicholson are amongst the ... district of country east from Wanganui , called Rauperaha after him , not far from Porirua , besides other places ...
... district , into the country on both sides of Cook's Straits , and the natives at Port Nicholson are amongst the ... district of country east from Wanganui , called Rauperaha after him , not far from Porirua , besides other places ...
Page 81
... district , where it frequently attains the height of a hundred feet , and thirty feet in circumference , though the highest timber trees there , fit for the royal navy , are nearly all gone , those remaining being good for logs , but ...
... district , where it frequently attains the height of a hundred feet , and thirty feet in circumference , though the highest timber trees there , fit for the royal navy , are nearly all gone , those remaining being good for logs , but ...
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CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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