Maori and Settler, a Story of the New Zealand War (Classic Reprint)

Stack Annex PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION In the following story I have mado no attempt to give anything like a general history of the long struggle between the brave tribes of New Zealand and the forces of England and the colony. That struggle lasted over a period of some years, and to do justice to its numerous incidents in the course of a single volume would have left no space whatever available for the telling of a story. It was divided into two distinct epochs. In the first the natives of the north of the islands fought for their independence and their right to have a king, and be governed by their own laws. Nothing could exceed the courage with which they struggled for these ends, and it needed a very strong force of British troops to storm their pahs or fortified camps, and overcome their resistanca The second epoch embraces the struggle brought about by the conversion of a portion of the tribes to the fanatical belief called the Pai Marire (literally good and peaceful ), whose votaries were generally known as the Hau-H aus. During the earlier war the natives behaved with great moderation, and there were but few cases of the murder of outlying settlers.
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