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 68
... feet high , yet he calculates the height , from certain data which he points out , at 8839 feet , or about eight times higher than Arthur's Seat , near Edinburgh . He came to the line of perpetual snow , at a point about 1600 feet below ...
... feet high , yet he calculates the height , from certain data which he points out , at 8839 feet , or about eight times higher than Arthur's Seat , near Edinburgh . He came to the line of perpetual snow , at a point about 1600 feet below ...
Page 81
... feet in eircumference , though it grows to the greatest per- fection in the Hokianga district , where it frequently attains the height of a hundred feet , and thirty feet in circumference , though the highest timber trees there , fit ...
... feet in eircumference , though it grows to the greatest per- fection in the Hokianga district , where it frequently attains the height of a hundred feet , and thirty feet in circumference , though the highest timber trees there , fit ...
Page 110
... feet wide , which flows into the Wairoa on its left bank . The white men halted on the left bank , with a hill behind them covered with fern , and sloping upwards with several brows or terraces . Mr. Thomp- son , Captain Wakefield , Mr ...
... feet wide , which flows into the Wairoa on its left bank . The white men halted on the left bank , with a hill behind them covered with fern , and sloping upwards with several brows or terraces . Mr. Thomp- son , Captain Wakefield , Mr ...
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CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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