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An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.Buick, Thomas Lindsay

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An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.

Name: An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.
Author: Buick, Thomas Lindsay

Buick, Thomas Lindsay

Māori (New Zealand people) -- Biography; Māori (New Zealand people) -- History; New Zealand; Ngati Toa (New Zealand people) -- Biography; Ngati Toa (New Zealand people) -- History; Ngati Toa (New Zealand people) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Te Rauparaha, 1770?-1849

succeeding pages serve to balance these high qualities of the chief
against his failings, they may assist in setting up a more equitable
standard whereby future generations will be able to judge him.

In compiling this work I have necessarily had to draw upon many of the
existing publications on New Zealand, and I now desire gratefully to
acknowledge my obligations to their authors. I have also to thank Mr.
S. Percy Smith, F.R.G.S., for the kindly interest he has displayed in
the progress of my work, and in no less degree must I pay my
respectful acknowledgments to Mr. H. M. Stowell and to Mr. J. R.
Russell for their judicious criticisms and suggestions, whereby I have
been assisted in arriving at a correct historical perspective. To Mr.
T. W. Downes, of Whanganui, who has enthusiastically co-operated with
me in procuring some of the illustrations, and to Mr. J. W. Joynt,
M.A., for his careful revision of the proofs, I am equally indebted,
and now beg to tender to these gentlemen my sincere thanks for their
assistance.

Humbly acknowledging the force of Carlyle's dictum that "Histories are
as perfect as the historian is wise and is gifted with an eye and a
soul," I now present the result of my last year's labour to the reader.

THE AUTHOR.

VICTORIA AVENUE, DANNEVIRKE, N.Z.,

_May 23,_ 1911.




CONTENTS


                                                                  PAGE
 CHAPTER I
 WHENCE AND WHITHER?                                                 1

 CHAPTER II
 ARAWA AND TAINUI                                                   16

 CHAPTER III
 A WARRIOR IN THE MAKING                                            29

 CHAPTER IV
 THE LAND OF PROMISE                                                62

 CHAPTER V
 THE SOUTHERN RAIDS                                                121

 CHAPTER VI
 THE SMOKING FLAX                                                  189

 CHAPTER VII
 WAKEFIELD AND THE WAIRAU                                          235

 CHAPTER VIII
 THE CAPTIVE CHIEF                                                 293

 CHAPTER IX
 WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE                                            331




ILLUSTRATIONS


 PORTRAIT OF TE RAUPARAHA                               _Frontispiece_
 _After a drawing in the Hocken Collection, Dunedin_

                                                           FACING PAGE

 DEPARTURE OF "THE FLEET" FOR NEW ZEALAND                           16
 _From a painting by K. Watkins, Auckland.
 By kind permission of the Artist_

 POMOHAKA PASSAGE, KAWHIA                                           32
 _From a photo by Jonston_

 BURNING OF THE "BOYD"                                              48
 _From a painting by W. Wright, Auckland.
 By kind permission of the Artist_

 TE ARAWI PA, KAWHIA                                                64
 _The Point from which the Ngati-Toa migration commenced_

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An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.

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