Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New ZealandLongman, Hurst, Rees, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 327 páginas |
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Página 79
... and where fire - arms are little used , it ought to be an impregnable position ; though its chief is said to have fled from it when at- tacked by the tribe of Poro , and to have abandoned his property and many of his women to the 79.
... and where fire - arms are little used , it ought to be an impregnable position ; though its chief is said to have fled from it when at- tacked by the tribe of Poro , and to have abandoned his property and many of his women to the 79.
Página 184
... Poro , from the North Cape , adding , that there was to be a great fight ; but whether the attack was to be made on George's or Teperree's people could not , after numerous enquiries , be satis- factorily ascertained . The inhabitants ...
... Poro , from the North Cape , adding , that there was to be a great fight ; but whether the attack was to be made on George's or Teperree's people could not , after numerous enquiries , be satis- factorily ascertained . The inhabitants ...
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... Poro had thrown George and his tribe into the greatest alarm ; all work had been suspended for some days , and every preparation had been made against the for- midable invader . After Poro had broken up his camp on the third , he ...
... Poro had thrown George and his tribe into the greatest alarm ; all work had been suspended for some days , and every preparation had been made against the for- midable invader . After Poro had broken up his camp on the third , he ...
Página 186
... his intention of going into Poro's camp , to ascertain the object of his visit ; and Wheety , the native of Shukehanga before mentioned , who since his acquaintance with us had given many proofs of his fidelity , having some re- lations ...
... his intention of going into Poro's camp , to ascertain the object of his visit ; and Wheety , the native of Shukehanga before mentioned , who since his acquaintance with us had given many proofs of his fidelity , having some re- lations ...
Página 187
... Poro seated in the centre of his immediate relatives , while his tribe , with their arms in their hands , formed a circle round their chief and the strangers . Poro , upon being asked the object of his visit , replied , " that he came ...
... Poro seated in the centre of his immediate relatives , while his tribe , with their arms in their hands , formed a circle round their chief and the strangers . Poro , upon being asked the object of his visit , replied , " that he came ...
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afternoon afterwards alongside anchored appeared arms arrived assistance attended banks Bay of Islands beach boat Boyd Bream Bay Bream Head brother brought canoes Captain cargo carpenter Cavalles Islands chief coast cookee Coromandel countrymen Cowa Cowa-Cowa cowry crew deck Dromedary Europeans excursion Friday gale gentlemen George's ground harbour heads heavy Kameemy Kiddy-Kiddy killed King George koomeras Krokro land Marsden mearée Mercury Bay miles missionaries Monday morning Moto-corea muskets natives neighbouring night North Cape observed party perfectly person Poro Poro's Port Jackson potatoes Prince Regent schooner rain remained remarked river Thames sailed sailors Saturday scarcely seemed ship shore Showery Shukehanga Shungie Shungie's side South Wales spars stood Sunday tabbooed tattooed Tekokee Teperree Teperree's Tetoro Thursday timber Tippooi Tippoona told Tooi trees tribe Tuesday vessel village Wangarooa war-canoes weather Wednesday whaler Wheety wind women woods Wycaddy Zealand
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Página 19 - ... most doleful manner. If there be many friends gathered around the person who has returned, the nearest relation takes possession of his nose, while the others hang upon his arms, shoulders, and legs, and keep perfect time with the chief mourner ( if he may be so called) in the various expressions of his lamentations. This ended, they resume their wonted cheerfulness, and enter into a detail of all that has happened during their separation.
Página 41 - ... remained. She first began by cutting her arms, then her breasts, and latterly her face. Every incision was so deep as to cause a gush of .blood ; but she seemed quite insensible to pain, and performed the operation with heroic resolution. ' He whose cruelty had caused this frightful exhibition, was evidently amused at the horror with which we viewed it; and, laying hold of the head by the hair, which was long and black, offered to sell it to us for an axe, turned it in various ways to show it...
Página 310 - Captain was thereby prevailed on to leave the vessel, accompanied by his chief officer, with three boats manned, to get the spars on board, the natives who had arrived in the ship being of the party, which was accompanied by a number of others in their canoes. The boats were conducted to a river, on entering which they were out of sight of the ship ; and, after proceeding some distance up, Captain Thompson was invited to land, and mark the spars he wanted. The boats landed accordingly, the tide being...
Página 47 - When the head has been separated from the body, and the whole of the interior of it extracted, it is rolled up in leaves, and put into a kind of oven, made of heated stones laid in a hole in the ground, and covered over with earth. The temperature is very moderate, and the head is baked or steamed until all the moisture, which is frequently wiped away, has exuded ; after which it is left in a current of air until perfectly dry.
Página 40 - At once she seized it with a degree of frenzy not to be described, pressed its inanimate nose to her own, and held it in this position until her tears ran over every part of it. She then laid it down, and with a bit of sharp shell disfigured her person in so shocking a manner that in a few minutes not a vestige of her former beauty remained. She first began by cutting her arms, then her breasts, and latterly her face. Every incision was so deep as to cause a gush of blood; but she seemed quite insensible...
Página 309 - Otaheitan of the loss of the above vessel, which we premise by stating, upon the foregoing authority, that when the Boyd went from hence she had on board four or five New Zealanders, who made part of her crew. These people were displeased at their treatment on the passage, and determined on revenge. On their arrival they communicated their complaints to their friends and relatives, who were of the 400 THE BOYD MASSACRE.
Página 37 - When asked why he did not try to turn the minds of his people to agriculture, he said it was impossible; "that if you told a New Zealander to work, he fell asleep ; but if you spoke of fighting, he opened his eyes as wide as a teacup ; that the whole bent of his mind was war, and that he looked upon fighting as fun.
Página 2 - Holland, and when laden with what useful timber she could procure in the colony, to return to England. The immense spars requisite for making the topmasts of the larger classes of ships in the navy, had become so extravagant in price, and so scarce in Europe, that it was necessary to look for them elsewhere — Captain Cook had mentioned in his voyages that he thought the timber he had seen in New Zealand, if light enough, would make the finest masts for ships in the world; persons who subsequently...
Página 39 - ... to have paid as much attention to the ornamenting of their persons, as those who were placed in more fortunate circumstances. " Among the women there was one who excited particular interest : she was young and handsome ; and though the other prisoners occasionally talked among themselves, she sat silent and alone, and appeared lost in affliction. We learned that her father, who had been a chief of some consequence at the river Thames, was killed by the man whose prisoner she now was ; and we...
Página 40 - The extraordinary scenes that we witnessed detained us in the neighbourhood of Tippoona until evening ; and, as we were preparing to return to the ship, we were drawn to that part of the beach where the prisoners were, by the most doleful cries and lamentations. Here was the interesting young slave in a situation that ought to have softened the heart of the most unfeeling. The man who had slain her father, having cut off his head, and preserved it by a process peculiar to these islanders...