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 33
... taken place in a cluster of islands called the Feejee or Fijee Islands , the natives of which were the greatest cannibals in the known world , infinitely worse than the New Zealanders , but are gradually becoming changed by the force of ...
... taken place in a cluster of islands called the Feejee or Fijee Islands , the natives of which were the greatest cannibals in the known world , infinitely worse than the New Zealanders , but are gradually becoming changed by the force of ...
Page 126
... taken in battle , particular- ly if they were the chiefs ; and the introduction of civilized society amongst them , during the short space of three years , could hardly be expected to overcome , all at once , those feelings which they ...
... taken in battle , particular- ly if they were the chiefs ; and the introduction of civilized society amongst them , during the short space of three years , could hardly be expected to overcome , all at once , those feelings which they ...
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... taken and burnt , your houses and pahs would have been all destroyed ; for I should have brought with me from Sydney and other places an irresistible force . " But these were hasty , angry , unchristian thoughts ; they soon passed away ...
... taken and burnt , your houses and pahs would have been all destroyed ; for I should have brought with me from Sydney and other places an irresistible force . " But these were hasty , angry , unchristian thoughts ; they soon passed away ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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