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 137
... nature must this labour be ? Should it be actual labour - the real sweat of the brow , or the merest bodily exertion ... nature's general stock , so that the occupancy necessary to create a primary right to land , must be of a permanent ...
... nature must this labour be ? Should it be actual labour - the real sweat of the brow , or the merest bodily exertion ... nature's general stock , so that the occupancy necessary to create a primary right to land , must be of a permanent ...
Page 153
... nature , seem to have overcome their instinctive love of offspring , and led them to the con- clusion , as they had not food to support them till they grew up , without starving themselves , that of two evils they must choose the least ...
... nature , seem to have overcome their instinctive love of offspring , and led them to the con- clusion , as they had not food to support them till they grew up , without starving themselves , that of two evils they must choose the least ...
Page 163
... nature , than the description of the land contained in the different titles of the pro- prietors in that country , who were obliged to give in their claims to the commissioners appointed by Go- vernment , for all the lands they had ...
... nature , than the description of the land contained in the different titles of the pro- prietors in that country , who were obliged to give in their claims to the commissioners appointed by Go- vernment , for all the lands they had ...
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CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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