An Old New Zealander: Or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the SouthWhitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1911 - 351 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind the...
Pàgina 69 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget her cunning...
Pàgina 331 - The pa was on a mound, the only one in the vicinity, and strongly fortified in the native style, with thick lofty posts deeply sunk in the ground, and bound together with a huahua, or connecting pole, running round, at the height of about, ten feet from the ground. Inside the outer fence there was another, behind which the defenders could post themselves, and take aim through the outer one.
Pàgina 339 - ... eyelids and penetrating eyes, produced a fatal effect on the good prestige arising from his first appearance. The great chieftain, the man able to lead others, and habituated to wield authority, was clear at first sight ; but the savage ferocity of the tiger, who would not scruple to use any means for the attainment of that power, the destructive ambition of a selfish despot, was plainly discernible on a nearer view.
Pàgina 289 - Rangihaeata arrived, and we consulted what we should do. I proposed going into the bush, but they said, ' No, let us remain where we are ; what have we done that we should be thus beset?' " The Europeans slept some distance from us, and after they had breakfasted, came on towards us in two boats ; we remained on the same spot without food ; we were much alarmed ; early in the morning we were on the look-out, and one of our scouts who caught sight of them coming round a point, called out, ' Here they...
Pàgina 278 - I will die a king, with my mere in my hand. Go! I am no beggar! Rauparaha will fight the soldiers of the Queen when they come, with his own hands and his own name. Go to Maungatautari!' Then suddenly changing his strain, he looked on the assemblage of chiefs, bending down towards them with a paternal smile, and softening his voice to kindness and emotion. 'But what do I say?
Pàgina 7 - ... inches high, who, by his colour and features, might easily have passed for an European. I saw a girl, fifteen or sixteen years of age, as white as our French women.
Pàgina 227 - We did not believe that even the Royal power of making treaties could establish, in the eye of our courts, such a fiction as a native law of real property in New Zealand.
Pàgina 229 - Zealand, and to the respective families and individuals thereof, the full, exclusive, and undisturbed possession of their lands and estates, forests, fisheries, and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession...
Pàgina 214 - This latter village was very large ; it stood on a sand-hill, and was well fenced in, and the houses were neatly constructed. Everything was kept clean and in good order, and in this respect it surpassed many villages in Europe. The population seemed to be numerous, and I estimated it, together with that of the first-mentioned village, and a third, about a mile higher up, to amount, on the whole, to seven hundred souls.