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 119
... feelings of the old and original inhabitants of a coun- try , when excited by the encroachments of those whom they naturally considered interlopers upon their soil . The feelings of the local government of that coun- try , in regard to ...
... feelings of the old and original inhabitants of a coun- try , when excited by the encroachments of those whom they naturally considered interlopers upon their soil . The feelings of the local government of that coun- try , in regard to ...
Page 140
... feelings which must have actuated them when they came in contact with those whom they must have considered as interlopers upon their soil . In the second place , he did not arrive till six months after the event had taken place , and ...
... feelings which must have actuated them when they came in contact with those whom they must have considered as interlopers upon their soil . In the second place , he did not arrive till six months after the event had taken place , and ...
Page 158
... feelings . Mr. Williams also mentions that he had a female servant for fifteen years , who had been in the habit of practising infanticide as a trade ; just as a female in this country would practise midwifery ; and went about the ...
... feelings . Mr. Williams also mentions that he had a female servant for fifteen years , who had been in the habit of practising infanticide as a trade ; just as a female in this country would practise midwifery ; and went about the ...
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CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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