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Chapter 7 A MAORI VILLAGE

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ling brook. From its lofty banks, and the large trees lying athwart it, we conjectured that during heavy rains it must be a mighty flood. A long straggling collection

party for passing the stream, and also for my making a sketch. The red glare of the setting sun, just touching the top of every object, beautifully illuminated the landscape; and its rays b

as raised, and all the inhabitants came out to meet us. They carried us over th

he attention of our savage spectators, and caused them, on the unfolding of every fresh object, to make loud and long exclamations of wonder and amazement. As I was then "a stran

rtouch-box buckled round his waist, and a stone patoo-patoo, or hatchet, in his hand, while human bones were hung round each neck by way of ornament; let the scene and situation be taken into consideration, and he will acknowledge it was calculated to make the young traveller wish himself safe at home; but, when I suspected, I wronged them; for after admi

lvator Rosa could not have conceived a finer study of the horrible. A dozen men, of the largest and most athletic forms, their cakahoos (or mat-dresses) laid aside, and their huge limbs exposed to the red glare of the fire; their faces rendered hideous by being tattooed all over, showing by the firelight quite a bright blue; their eyes, which are remarkable for their fierc

fleas, mosquitoes, and sand-flies, which, beside their depredations on my person, made such a buzzing noise, t

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Contents

Chapter 1 VOYAGE FROM SYDNEY Chapter 2 RECEPTION BY THE NATIVES Chapter 3 A RAMBLE ASHORE Chapter 4 THE HOKIANGA RIVER EIGHTY YEARS AGO Chapter 5 JOURNEY OVERLAND TO BAY OF ISLANDS Chapter 6 MEETING WITH THE CHIEF PATUONE Chapter 7 A MAORI VILLAGE Chapter 8 TOILSOME JOURNEY THROUGH THE FOREST Chapter 9 THE MISSIONARY SETTLEMENT AT KERIKERI Chapter 10 THE BAY OF ISLANDS Chapter 11 THE MASSACRE OF THE BOYD
Chapter 12 THE FIRST SETTLEMENT AT KORORAREKA
Chapter 13 MAORI NON-PROGRESSIVENESS
Chapter 14 A MISSION SETTLEMENT
Chapter 15 A VISIT FROM HONGI
Chapter 16 INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT MAORI CONQUEROR
Chapter 17 A MAORI WELCOME
Chapter 18 EXCURSIONS IN THE INTERIOR
Chapter 19 ENTERTAINED BY MAORI WOMEN
Chapter 20 LOADING SPARS AT HOKIANGA
Chapter 21 DEATH OF A GREAT CHIEF
Chapter 22 BRUTAL MURDER OF A WIFE
Chapter 23 ANOTHER JOURNEY TO BAY OF ISLANDS
Chapter 24 VISIT OF A WAR PARTY
Chapter 25 BURNED OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME
Chapter 26 A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION
Chapter 27 THE LAW OF RETALIATION
Chapter 28 A WAR EXPEDITION AND A CANNIBAL FEAST
Chapter 29 SLAVERY AMONG THE MAORIS
Chapter 30 PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF A VESSEL
Chapter 31 THE CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS
Chapter 32 THE ART OF TATTOOING
Chapter 33 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION
Chapter 34 THE MAORI VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY
Chapter 35 THREATENED INVASION BY HONGI
Chapter 36 ARRIVAL OF A WARSHIP
Chapter 37 THE WHALERS AND THE MISSIONARIES
Chapter 38 THREATENED WAR
Chapter 39 CONSTRUCTION OF A PA
Chapter 40 A SHAM FIGHT
Chapter 41 RETURN OF THE BRIG.-AN EXCITING INCIDENT
Chapter 42 WAR-LIKE EXPEDITION TO THE THAMES
Chapter 43 VISITS OF WHALERS
Chapter 44 VISIT OF TWO SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS
Chapter 45 THE DEATH OF HONGI
Chapter 46 A TRIBAL CONFLICT
Chapter 47 THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 48 DEPARTURE FROM BAY OF ISLANDS
Chapter 49 THE JOURNEY TO HOKIANGA
Chapter 50 EUROPEAN PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
Chapter 51 OBSERVATIONS ON THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE MAORIS
Chapter 52 A MAORI TANGI
Chapter 53 CHARACTER OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS
Chapter 54 THE SETTLEMENT AND TRADE OF HOKIANGA
Chapter 55 MASSACRE OF A SCHOONER'S CREW
Chapter 56 FAREWELL TO NEW ZEALAND
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