The murder of a missionary by the Maoris in New Zealand: Captain Levy, master of , 1865. 'The hideous superstition now prevailing, which takes the name of the "Pai Marire" from the Virgin Mary, of whom they [the Maori] have heard from a French Catholic held to sanctify the commission of any crime or by this deadly fanaticism, the a horrible crime at Maoris, being in irresistible force, ordered Captain [Morris] Levy, with his crew and passengers, to come out of the vessel. As soon as they did so, the Mao
The murder of a missionary by the Maoris in New Zealand: Captain Levy, master of , 1865. 'The hideous superstition now prevailing, which takes the name of the "Pai Marire" from the Virgin Mary, of whom they [the Maori] have heard from a French Catholic held to sanctify the commission of any crime or by this deadly fanaticism, the a horrible crime at Maoris, being in irresistible force, ordered Captain [Morris] Levy, with his crew and passengers, to come out of the vessel. As soon as they did so, the Maoris seized Mr. Volkner and Mr. Grace, and began to tie them desisted from this when Captain Levy interfered. The two reverend gentlemen, however, with four sailors, the crew of the schooner, were shut up in , guarded by twenty Levy and Mr. Samuel Levy were not personally molested, because, as the Maoris observed, they were the morning Captain Levy and Mr. S. Levy were told that the two missionaries would be shot. Captain Levy in vain remonstrated and begged the Maoris to refrain from this bloody act. In order to purchase the lives of his two passengers, he gave up the vessel and its be plundered by the Maoris'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.
Size: 1286px × 1594px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: /, 19th, 19th-century, abraham, art, arts, barque, bay, beard, bearded, black, boat, boats, britain, british, bw, captain, carl, century, christianity, collector, colonial, colonialism, colony, colour, concept, controversial, controversy, conversion, crime, eclipse, empire, engraved, engraving, facial, guy, hair, illustrated, iln, imperialism, incident, invasion, island, jewish, job, judaism, law, levy, location, london, male, man, men, merchant, missionaries, missionary, morris, murder, murdering, naval, navy, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, north, occupation, opotiki, people, plenty, portrait, press, print, profession, religion, religious, sailboat, sailboats, sailing, sailor, sailors, samuel, schooner, ship, ships, slaughter, slaughtering, ss, sylvius, transport, transportation, unknown, volkner, war, warfare, wars, water, white, zealand, ölkner
