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 104
... fight , don't fight , this book says it is wrong to fight ; the land has become good through the missionaries , don't make it bad again . " " Colonel Wakefield also states , in one of his despatches to the Secretary of the Com- pany in ...
... fight , don't fight , this book says it is wrong to fight ; the land has become good through the missionaries , don't make it bad again . " " Colonel Wakefield also states , in one of his despatches to the Secretary of the Com- pany in ...
Page 110
... fight , yet , if the white people fought , he would fight too . He also requested to have the matter decided on the spot , and professed his readiness to make the compen- sation to Mr. Cotterell required by the magistrates , provided ...
... fight , yet , if the white people fought , he would fight too . He also requested to have the matter decided on the spot , and professed his readiness to make the compen- sation to Mr. Cotterell required by the magistrates , provided ...
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... 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 bad part of the Wairoa affair , -that part where you were so very wrong , —was the killing of the men ...
... 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 bad part of the Wairoa affair , -that part where you were so very wrong , —was the killing of the men ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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