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A SKETCH OF THE NEW ZEALAND WAR
By MORGAN S. GRACE C.M.G
COUNT OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND
LONDON
HORACE MARSHALL AND SON
TEMPLE HOUSE TEMPLE AVENUE EC
1899
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BUTLER & TANNER,
THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS,
FROME, AND LONDON.
[DEDICATION]
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TO
V.C. SIR ANTHONY HOME K.C.B
an eminently distinguished man, whose Literary Taste is only surpassed by his Personal Courage, this brief sketch is dedicated. My admiration for his pure Love of Justice and Truth suggested this Narrative, and the pleasure I take in contemplating his surprise at its details gives zest to this effort to renew my Youth.
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[PREFACE]
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Preface
THIS sketch of the Maori War is not intended to have any merit except spontaneity. I have consulted no authorities, read no despatches.
I hold that no one who was a participator in the events of this war could realize its true character by reading the published accounts of it.
I have a photographic plate in my brain of everything that I saw, from which I can strike off pictures at will. And I can act as a phonograph of everything I heard. I can describe and narrate by word of mouth without difficulty, but I am a cramped writer, and mere penmanship makes my progress like that of a horse
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galloping with his legs tied. All the same, as I shall soon be dead and gone, I now give effect to the wish I have had in my mind for more than thirty years.
I scorn a lie in any form, not merely on account of its intrinsic faultiness (for I have known dozens of fine fellows in all walks of life lie on occasion without circumstance), but because, if I told a lie, I would have to own up at once and take the consequences, lest my adversary should think I was afraid of him. What I have written I have seen or heard from true and worthy witnesses, and if you will look through my eyes, you will see it also. The knowledge cannot fail of a humanizing effect. You will thus learn what blundering asses we were, and what fine fellows the Maori.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION......... 1
MY EARLY DAYS......... 9
ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND....... 15
OFF TO THE WAR......... 21
SOLDIER'S ACCOUNT OF THE WAR..... 27
ENTRENCHED AT WAIREKA....... 41
ATTACK ON A STOCKADE....... 53
SIR DONALD MCLEAN'S STORY...... 65
WAITINI AND WIREMU KINGI...... 73
GENERAL PRATT AT MAHOETAHI..... 83
A MILITARY HOSPITAL........ 93
PEACH-GROVES AND THISTLES...... 99
MAORI SURPRISE ATTACKS....... 105
GENERAL CAMERON........ 119
FROM CAMERON TO CHUTE....... 127
ROPATA AND THE HAU-HAUS...... 143
BEGUILING THE NGATIPUKEKA...... 155
SIR GEORGE GREY AND GENERAL CHUTE . . .165
CONCLUSION.......... 169
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
DR. MORGAN GRACE......Frontispiece
WIREMU KINGI......to face page 28
WAR MAP OF NEW ZEALAND.......50
WIREMU TAMIHANA ....... 73
HAPERONA........ 79
A MAORI STOREHOUSE...... 119
KEREOPA........ 151
CHIEF OF THE NGATIPUKEKA..... 162
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