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 62
... inhabitants , and the villages of Petoni and Aglionby , six or seven miles distant , at the mouth of the valley of the Hutt , where we were first located , the present inhabitants of that district amount to 6000 British , and about a ...
... inhabitants , and the villages of Petoni and Aglionby , six or seven miles distant , at the mouth of the valley of the Hutt , where we were first located , the present inhabitants of that district amount to 6000 British , and about a ...
Page 133
... inhabitants of a civilized country are entitled to go to a barbarous country and drive the na- tives like sheep to a distance , or , if necessary , extirpate them altogether ; " and the general opinion is that they are . Mr. Matthew ...
... inhabitants of a civilized country are entitled to go to a barbarous country and drive the na- tives like sheep to a distance , or , if necessary , extirpate them altogether ; " and the general opinion is that they are . Mr. Matthew ...
Page 156
... inhabitants should be sent to their graves . The inhabitants of this country are too numerous for its means of subsistence . The feast is not large enough for those who require to partake of it . Some , indeed , occupy such good seats ...
... inhabitants should be sent to their graves . The inhabitants of this country are too numerous for its means of subsistence . The feast is not large enough for those who require to partake of it . Some , indeed , occupy such good seats ...
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CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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