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Chapter 8 TOILSOME JOURNEY THROUGH THE FOREST

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ourney; we had eight miles more of this thick forest to scramble through, and

difficulty through this miserable road, our natives were jogging on as comfortably as possible: use had so completely accustomed them to it, that they sprung over the roots, and dived under the supple-jacks and branches, with perfect ease, while we were panting after them in vain. The whole

invariably walk with the feet turned in, or pigeon-toed, they feel no inconvenience from the narrowness. When a traveller is once on the path, it is impossible for him to go astray. No other animal, except man, ever traverses this country, and his track cannot be mistaken, since none ever deviate from the beaten footpath, which was in consequence, in some places (where the soil was light), worn so deep as to resemble

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Contents

A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
Chapter 1 VOYAGE FROM SYDNEY
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Chapter 2 RECEPTION BY THE NATIVES
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Chapter 3 A RAMBLE ASHORE
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Chapter 4 THE HOKIANGA RIVER EIGHTY YEARS AGO
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Chapter 5 JOURNEY OVERLAND TO BAY OF ISLANDS
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Chapter 6 MEETING WITH THE CHIEF PATUONE
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Chapter 7 A MAORI VILLAGE
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Chapter 8 TOILSOME JOURNEY THROUGH THE FOREST
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Chapter 9 THE MISSIONARY SETTLEMENT AT KERIKERI
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Chapter 10 THE BAY OF ISLANDS
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Chapter 11 THE MASSACRE OF THE BOYD
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Chapter 12 THE FIRST SETTLEMENT AT KORORAREKA
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Chapter 13 MAORI NON-PROGRESSIVENESS
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Chapter 14 A MISSION SETTLEMENT
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Chapter 15 A VISIT FROM HONGI
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Chapter 16 INTERVIEW WITH THE GREAT MAORI CONQUEROR
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Chapter 17 A MAORI WELCOME
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Chapter 18 EXCURSIONS IN THE INTERIOR
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Chapter 19 ENTERTAINED BY MAORI WOMEN
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Chapter 20 LOADING SPARS AT HOKIANGA
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Chapter 21 DEATH OF A GREAT CHIEF
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Chapter 22 BRUTAL MURDER OF A WIFE
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Chapter 23 ANOTHER JOURNEY TO BAY OF ISLANDS
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Chapter 24 VISIT OF A WAR PARTY
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Chapter 25 BURNED OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME
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Chapter 26 A HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION
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Chapter 27 THE LAW OF RETALIATION
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Chapter 28 A WAR EXPEDITION AND A CANNIBAL FEAST
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Chapter 29 SLAVERY AMONG THE MAORIS
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Chapter 30 PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF A VESSEL
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Chapter 31 THE CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS
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Chapter 32 THE ART OF TATTOOING
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Chapter 33 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION
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Chapter 34 THE MAORI VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY
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Chapter 35 THREATENED INVASION BY HONGI
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Chapter 36 ARRIVAL OF A WARSHIP
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Chapter 37 THE WHALERS AND THE MISSIONARIES
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Chapter 38 THREATENED WAR
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Chapter 39 CONSTRUCTION OF A PA
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Chapter 40 A SHAM FIGHT
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Chapter 41 RETURN OF THE BRIG.-AN EXCITING INCIDENT
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Chapter 42 WAR-LIKE EXPEDITION TO THE THAMES
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Chapter 43 VISITS OF WHALERS
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Chapter 44 VISIT OF TWO SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS
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Chapter 45 THE DEATH OF HONGI
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Chapter 46 A TRIBAL CONFLICT
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Chapter 47 THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
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Chapter 48 DEPARTURE FROM BAY OF ISLANDS
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Chapter 49 THE JOURNEY TO HOKIANGA
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Chapter 50 EUROPEAN PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
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Chapter 51 OBSERVATIONS ON THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE MAORIS
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Chapter 52 A MAORI TANGI
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Chapter 53 CHARACTER OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS
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Chapter 54 THE SETTLEMENT AND TRADE OF HOKIANGA
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Chapter 55 MASSACRE OF A SCHOONER'S CREW
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Chapter 56 FAREWELL TO NEW ZEALAND
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