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 62
... town , is now getting fast into cultivation . It is fortunate that it was aban- doned as a township , as the water on one occasion , rose three or four feet in several of the huts , so that some of the guests of a gentleman , who ...
... town , is now getting fast into cultivation . It is fortunate that it was aban- doned as a township , as the water on one occasion , rose three or four feet in several of the huts , so that some of the guests of a gentleman , who ...
Page 64
... town , or nearly three miles . The ave- rage rent of land on the beach is about sixteen shil- lings per lineal foot of street frontage , and all land within half a mile of it lets advantageously . The merchandise and provisions in the ...
... town , or nearly three miles . The ave- rage rent of land on the beach is about sixteen shil- lings per lineal foot of street frontage , and all land within half a mile of it lets advantageously . The merchandise and provisions in the ...
Page 69
... town , suburban , and country allotments for sale there , makes the following remark : - " Nelson will not be an obscure provincial town , but in all proba- bility will be the capital of the great South Island . It will have immediately ...
... town , suburban , and country allotments for sale there , makes the following remark : - " Nelson will not be an obscure provincial town , but in all proba- bility will be the capital of the great South Island . It will have immediately ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER | 35 |
Manners and Customs of the NativesTattooing | 83 |
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