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OUR ANTIPODES.
VOL. II.
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LONDON:
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
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OUR ANTIPODES:
OR,
RESIDENCE AND RAMBLES
IN
THE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES.
WITH
A GLIMPSE OF THE GOLD FIELDS.
BY LT. COLONEL
GODFREY CHARLES MUNDY,
AUTHOR OF "PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES IN INDIA."
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
MDCCCLII.
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[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
[1847.]
SEA-SICKNESS A SEDATIVE--PUNCH--PORT MACQUARIE--LAKE INNES COTTAGE--BAGPIPES--PRETTY GIRLS AND THE POLKA--THE BUNYIP--MILITARY COLONISTS--HOSPITALITY--RIDE ACROSS THE MACQUARIE MOUNTAINS--SQUATTING STATIONS--THE YARROWS--TIMBER--CEDAR--GLOOMY FOREST--THE BELL-BIRD--THE TREE-FERN--FLIGHT OF PARROTS......9
CHAPTER II.
THE MOUNTAIN ROAD--A LUNCH "PLANTED"--A SECLUDED HOME--A ROUGH STAGE--SALISBURY COURT--A VERITABLE SQUATTER--SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS--BLACK-MAIL--DIVIDING RANGE--ARMIDALE--GYRA--A DEATH STRUGGLE--BEAU-IDEAL OF A BUSHMAN--BUCKJUMPING, ETC. --RETURN TO SYDNEY--SCHEHERAZADE IN A STEAMBOAT.........29
CHAPTER III.
VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND--HISTORICAL NOTES--FIRST SETTLERS-- MISSIONARIES--CONQUEST OF HONGI, THE TRAVELLED MAORI--GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED--TREATY OF WAITANGI--FIRST COLLISIONS--INADEQUATE RESOURCES OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT--AUGMENTED FORCES--COOPERATION OF FRIENDLY CHIEFS--THE REVOLT CRUSHED...........48
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CHAPTER IV.
NEW ZEALAND IN SIGHT--AUCKLAND--HEAD-QUARTERS--MAORIS' LOVE OF TRADE--THEIR EXTERIOR, ATTIRE, ETC.--HALF-BREEDS--GOVERNMENT HOUSE--BISHOP'S AUCKLAND--LEISURE UTILIZED--PENSIONER VILLAGES--UTU--AN INQUEST--NATIVE NOTABLES--A CONTEMPORARY OF COOK--THE LANGUAGE--SOBRIETY AND AN EXCEPTION..........70
CHAPTER V.
ANCIENT PAHS--REVERSES IN A RIDE--THOUGHTS ON A BAD HAT---CLIMATE--SOCIABILITY IN A SMALL COMPASS--DANCING--A MAORI ANTINOUS--A BAZAAR--THE MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN--A WIFE OFFERED--NATIVES SHOPPING--THE ONGI--THE TANGI--GROUP FOR SCULPTURE--HOW TO SUBJUGATE A SAVAGE--FLAX--THE MOKU--TREATMENT OF WOMEN--A DEDUCTION.............101
CHAPTER VI.
A PRAYER MEETING--NATIVE CHRISTIANS--OLD PAGAN CHIEFS--MOUNT EDEN--AN OASIS--ANCIENT SEPULCHRE--THE KAURI--A DESERTED HOME--MAGIC LANTHORN--A GIFT HORSE--AN INAUGURATION--A WAR DANCE AND BREAD AND JAM--MAN AND WOMAN EATING--VOYAGE TO THE BAY OF ISLANDS--WAHAPU--KORORARIKA--CAUSES OF ILL-BLOOD--TROOPS APPLIED FOR--HEKI--HIS FIRST OUTBREAK--CONFERENCE OF WAIMATE--TRUCE BROKEN--PANORAMA OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS--KORORARIKA SURPRISED, SACKED, AND BURNT.............130
CHAPTER VII.
EXPEDITION AGAINST OKAEHAU--STRENGTH OF THE PAH--A SORTIE--SKIRMISH--LOSS--RETREAT--CAUSES OF FAILURE--HEKI REASONS ON PAPER--IS WOUNDED--EXPEDITION AGAINST OHAIOWAI--BOMBARDMENT--SORTIE, ASSAULT, AND REPULSE--LOSS--PAH EVACUATED AND DESTROYED--REFLECTIONS--RESPECT YOUR FOE--WARFARE AGAINST SAVAGES--HEKI TRUCKLES, KAWITI TEMPORIZES--MISSIONARIES CONSIDERED AS HERALDS AND ARMY CONTRACTORS.........193
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CHAPTER VIII.
EXPEDITION AGAINST KAWITI--BRITISH FORCE--KAWA-KAWA RIVER--PAH OF PUKU-TUTU--TRIP ON THE TRACK OF THE TROOPS--ROUGH COUNTRY AND ROUGH WORK--KAURI GUM--NATIVE ALLIES--RUINS OF THE STOCKADE--FALL OF THE BAT'S NEST--KAWITI APOLOGISES AND PUNS--OUR PICNIC AND RETURN--LIGHT AND SHADE OF BATTLE--NATIVE NOTABLES............223
CHAPTER IX.
VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH--A LEE LURCH--NATIVES ON BOARD--HABITS AND CUSTOMS--A BOUT AT SINGLE STICK--A PRACTICAL JOKE--MAORI AND HALF-BREED WOMEN--THEIR DEVOTION--THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY--FIRST SETTLEMENT--LAND QUESTION AND RIGHTS--BATTLE OF MONGANUI--THE WAIRAU, THE FIGHT, THE FLIGHT, THE MASSACRE--CONSEQUENCES--WHOSE THE FAULT--RANGIHAIETA's IMPUNITY--GIBBET HEROES--RANGIHAIETA'S PERSON............248
CHAPTER X.
MODEST LAND CLAIMS--TENURES--THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY'S CHIEF TOWN--WELLINGTON VERSUS AUCKLAND--WHERE TO SETTLE--PRODIGALITY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS--ROADS NEAR WELLINGTON--A SKETCH PREVENTED--RIDE TO THE HUTT VALLEY--STOCKADES AND SETTLEMENTS--THE BUSH OF NEW ZEALAND--BIRDS--BUSH-FIGHTING--THE ATTACK ON BOULCOTT's FARM................286
CHAPTER XI.
SKIRMISHES IN THE HUTT VALLEY--AFFAIR OF THE TAITAI--WHO ARMED THE REBELS?--"OULD RAP" DINES WITH SOME OLD FRIENDS--RIDE TO PORIRUA HARBOUR--NEW ZEALAND SYLVA--POST OF PORIRUA--ARREST OF TE RAUPERAHA--PAHATANUI--REMOTE STATIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S ARMY--THE HOROKIWI VALLEY--RANGIHAIETA ESCAPES BY FLIGHT.................317
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CHAPTER XII. [1848.]
TRIP TO THE WANGANUI DISTRICT--MANA AND KAPITI--SUNRISE ON MOUNT EGMONT--WANGANUI BAR AND RIVER--WANGANUI SETTLED, BELEAGUERED, DESERTED, GARRISONED--MASSACRE OF THE GILFINNANS--MURDERERS CAPTURED, AND HANGED UNDER MARTIAL LAW--THE POST STRENGTHENED--A CHIEF KILLED--AFFAIR OF ST. JOHN'S WOOD--KORIROS AND WAR DANCES--MAORI SOOTHSAYERS--CLOSE OF THE WAR.............338
CHAPTER XIII. [1848.]
WANGANUI--INTERVIEW WITH THE REBEL DELEGATES--BED AND BOARD AT WANGANUI--RELEASE OF TE RAUPERAHA AT OTAKI --HIS RECEPTION--HIS DEATH--A PHANTOM SHIP--NO MORE FIGHTING--ANNIVERSARY OF WELLINGTON--A CANOE RACE--MAORI AND BRITISH FIGURE-HEADS--OLD AND YOUNG NEW ZEALAND--TATTOOING--MAORI TRIAL OF CRIM. CON.--THE HAKA...............369
CHAPTER XIV.
[1848.]
PASSAGE FROM WELLINGTON TO AUCKLAND, THENCE TO SYDNEY--THE VICE-REGAL YACHT--KAWAU COPPER MINE--TOMATI WAKA---LAST NEWS OF HONI HEKI---MASSACRE OF THE "BOYD" --THE "DEBORAH"--MY FELLOW-PASSENGERS--ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY.................394
