Old New Zealand; A Tale of the Good Old Times and a History of the War in the North Against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845, Told by an Old Chief of
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Old New Zealand; A Tale Of The Good Old Times And A History Of The War In The North Against The Chief Heke, In The Year 1845, Told (1845)
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Frederick Edward Maning, Books, History, Old New Zealand; A Tale Of The Good Old Times And A History Of The War In The North Against The Chief Heke, In The Year 1845, Told, Excerpt: ... or to Tareha to go on board a canoe which had been made sacred by the bare supposition that his skull should be a vessel to bale it with. Of course the first man laying his hand on any other canoe, and claiming it, secured it for himself and tribe, always provided that the number of men there present representing his tribe or hapu were sufficient to back his claim, and render it dangerous to dispossess him. I have seen men shamefully robbed, for want of sufficient support, of their honest lawful gains, after all the trouble and risk they had gone to in killing the owners of their plunder. But dishonest people are to be found almost everywhere, and I will say this, that my friends the Maoris seldom act against law, and always try to be able to say what they do is correct (tika). This tapu is a bore, even to write about, and I fear the reader is beginning to think it a bore to read about. It began long before the time of Moses, and I think that steam navigation will be the death of it; but lest it should kill my reader, I will have done with it for the present, and try back, for I have left my story behind completely. (p. 140) Chapter XIII. My Rangatira.
Frederick Edward Maning, Books, History, Old New Zealand; A Tale Of The Good Old Times And A History Of The War In The North Against The Chief Heke, In The Year 1845, Told, Excerpt: ... or to Tareha to go on board a canoe which had been made sacred by the bare supposition that his skull should be a vessel to bale it with. Of course the first man laying his hand on any other canoe, and claiming it, secured it for himself and tribe, always provided that the number of men there present representing his tribe or hapu were sufficient to back his claim, and render it dangerous to dispossess him. I have seen men shamefully robbed, for want of sufficient support, of their honest lawful gains, after all the trouble and risk they had gone to in killing the owners of their plunder. But dishonest people are to be found almost everywhere, and I will say this, that my friends the Maoris seldom act against law, and always try to be able to say what they do is correct (tika). This tapu is a bore, even to write about, and I fear the reader is beginning to think it a bore to read about. It began long before the time of Moses, and I think that steam navigation will be the death of it; but lest it should kill my reader, I will have done with it for the present, and try back, for I have left my story behind completely. (p. 140) Chapter XIII. My Rangatira.
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Old New Zealand; A Tale of the Good Old Times and a History of the War in the North Against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845, Told by an Old Chief of (2012)
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