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 36
... occasionally find it difficult to get even one crop of grain within the year , and a story is told of a farmer , whose crop one year never happened to ripen at all on his high land , so that he thought he would let it stand over the ...
... occasionally find it difficult to get even one crop of grain within the year , and a story is told of a farmer , whose crop one year never happened to ripen at all on his high land , so that he thought he would let it stand over the ...
Page 81
... occasionally used by the Board of Admiralty for spars , masts , & c . , in their various dock - yards ; and I have seen in Sydney the most beautiful floors laid with it in some of the more fash- ionable houses . The shipment of spars ...
... occasionally used by the Board of Admiralty for spars , masts , & c . , in their various dock - yards ; and I have seen in Sydney the most beautiful floors laid with it in some of the more fash- ionable houses . The shipment of spars ...
Page 86
... occasionally for the body , as a surveyor in this country would make out a plan for an estate . They commence the operation at an early age , about fourteen or fifteen , as it takes two or three years before the operation is completed ...
... occasionally for the body , as a surveyor in this country would make out a plan for an estate . They commence the operation at an early age , about fourteen or fifteen , as it takes two or three years before the operation is completed ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
Copyright | |
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