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 50
... perhaps the place best adapted for the capital , from its fine harbour , and being in the very centre of the country , as the Middle Island lies contiguous to it on the other side of Cook's Straits . It is , moreover , on the high road ...
... perhaps the place best adapted for the capital , from its fine harbour , and being in the very centre of the country , as the Middle Island lies contiguous to it on the other side of Cook's Straits . It is , moreover , on the high road ...
Page 64
... perhaps the best adapted for settlers of capital , who do not depend on immediate return , on account of its extreme fertility ; but Wan- ganui , Manawatu , and New Plymouth , in the North Island , and Nelson on the Middle , are perhaps ...
... perhaps the best adapted for settlers of capital , who do not depend on immediate return , on account of its extreme fertility ; but Wan- ganui , Manawatu , and New Plymouth , in the North Island , and Nelson on the Middle , are perhaps ...
Page 119
With a Map of the Country Alexander Marjoribanks. tives , ) had been perhaps too lenient in allowing some previous acts of aggression on the part of the natives to go unpunished , and to this has been attributed one of the causes of the ...
With a Map of the Country Alexander Marjoribanks. tives , ) had been perhaps too lenient in allowing some previous acts of aggression on the part of the natives to go unpunished , and to this has been attributed one of the causes of the ...
Contents
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CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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