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 70
... settled there , and as their numbers amount to about a thouand , they will soon become of great use to the settlers . The whole British population now settled in New Zealand , may be stated pretty nearly as follows : - Port Nicholson ...
... settled there , and as their numbers amount to about a thouand , they will soon become of great use to the settlers . The whole British population now settled in New Zealand , may be stated pretty nearly as follows : - Port Nicholson ...
Page 120
... settling the land claims , seem to have lost sight of a most im- portant fact , namely , that this was not the fault of ... settled upwards of 500 of the claims given in , com- prising nearly one - fourth part of the whole land in that ...
... settling the land claims , seem to have lost sight of a most im- portant fact , namely , that this was not the fault of ... settled upwards of 500 of the claims given in , com- prising nearly one - fourth part of the whole land in that ...
Page 136
... settled , and such countries are beyond the argument . In England , for instance , the right to all land is determined by law , and as to commons and wastes , which apparently belong to nobody , the right to them is declared to be in ...
... settled , and such countries are beyond the argument . In England , for instance , the right to all land is determined by law , and as to commons and wastes , which apparently belong to nobody , the right to them is declared to be in ...
Contents
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CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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