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 10
... short and uncertain , they would derive great con- solation when traversing the stormy deep , and when tossed about by its mighty waters , from the hopes which the Christian religion afforded , of more endur- ing felicity hereafter ...
... short and uncertain , they would derive great con- solation when traversing the stormy deep , and when tossed about by its mighty waters , from the hopes which the Christian religion afforded , of more endur- ing felicity hereafter ...
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... short months I was doomed to witness those very beings who were cheer- ing and shouting as they left the land of their nativity , cast , as it were , upon a barren , dreary , and inhospitable shore . I saw them turned out into a flat ...
... short months I was doomed to witness those very beings who were cheer- ing and shouting as they left the land of their nativity , cast , as it were , upon a barren , dreary , and inhospitable shore . I saw them turned out into a flat ...
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... short , they continued pouring forth the most extrava- gant eulogies on each other for several hours , till the healths of almost the whole company had been pro- posed , and they had made their speeches , when the revelry , of course ...
... short , they continued pouring forth the most extrava- gant eulogies on each other for several hours , till the healths of almost the whole company had been pro- posed , and they had made their speeches , when the revelry , of course ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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