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 13
... remained on the poop for hours , admiring the scene , and reflecting on Lord Byron's beautiful description of the sensations which it produces : - " Oh ! who can tell save he whose soul hath tried , And danc'd in triumph o'er the waters ...
... remained on the poop for hours , admiring the scene , and reflecting on Lord Byron's beautiful description of the sensations which it produces : - " Oh ! who can tell save he whose soul hath tried , And danc'd in triumph o'er the waters ...
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... remained there only two hours . During that time , a family of natives paid us a visit in their canoes , the first we had seen , but a worse speci- men of them cannot well be imagined . It was when off this Island that I composed the ...
... remained there only two hours . During that time , a family of natives paid us a visit in their canoes , the first we had seen , but a worse speci- men of them cannot well be imagined . It was when off this Island that I composed the ...
Page 93
... remained to gorge on sixty human bodies . The sight is even now horrifying ; -human bones of all kinds are spread about , many of them evidently broken for the purpose of extracting the marrow , and all of them picked as clean as they ...
... remained to gorge on sixty human bodies . The sight is even now horrifying ; -human bones of all kinds are spread about , many of them evidently broken for the purpose of extracting the marrow , and all of them picked as clean as they ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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