An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Company: From Personal Observation During a Residence ThereSmith, Elder, 1841 - 87 pages |
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Page 3 - This is a valuable contribution to our sources of information respecting New Zealand, and the best proof of the Author's very favourable opinion of the country...
Page 16 - Most of us had made anxious enquiries on this subject before we embarked, and our conviction was, that we should be received as friends by the natives, if our conduct towards them were just and friendly. Our most sanguine expectations were completely realized. Our numbers, indeed, astonished them, and they used frequently to ask whether our whole tribe, meaning thereby all the people of England, had not come to Port Nicholson.