The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . a um die Erdo, &c. (ISG-t), &c. 1:10 THE COUXTRIES OF THE WORLD. traded, generally married, and not imfrequently wore eaten. It was in the provinceof Auckland, at Kororcka, in Bay of Islands, that Heke, the Maori chief, thrice cutdown the liagstaff which the settlers had erected, and thus kindled the flames of that warwith which New Zealand has been so unenviably associated in the worlds Bishop Selwvn settled before New Zealand had the number o
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . a um die Erdo, &c. (ISG-t), &c. 1:10 THE COUXTRIES OF THE WORLD. traded, generally married, and not imfrequently wore eaten. It was in the provinceof Auckland, at Kororcka, in Bay of Islands, that Heke, the Maori chief, thrice cutdown the liagstaff which the settlers had erected, and thus kindled the flames of that warwith which New Zealand has been so unenviably associated in the worlds Bishop Selwvn settled before New Zealand had the number of bishops it hasin modern times; here, up to 1S(M, lived all the New Zealand Governors and bureauo-crats • and in the pleasant town of Auckland, up to the same date, met the GeneralAssembly or Federal Parliament of the provinces, until it was removed, for a reason thathas never made itself clear to the Aucklanders, to the city of Wellington, a morecentral but less interesting town. Auckland Mr. Trollope looks upon as the typical NewZealand town. Dunedin is, no doubt, more populous; but Dunedin is a Scottish town, just. THE sentinel ROCK, WHITE ISLAND, AUCKLAND (DEDICATED TOTHE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN COOk). as Canterbury is an English one, and in cither a Maori is just about as rare as he is inLondon. But in the streets of Auckland the Maoris and the half-castes still wanderabout in a listless and not always sober condition; and into this city, redolent of NewZealand, wander at uncertain intervals the Pakeha Maori, sometimes with his Maori brevet-spouse, in quest of tea, sugar, and lirandy. ^Nlaoii weapons are common curios in everytavern or private house, and out of the soil are continually being dug lethal tools (p. 97),which speak of other times—chronologically not very far off, but soon to be separatedsocially from ours by a wide gulf. Of their share in the ^laori wars—with whichOtago and Canterbury had no more to do than Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, which,like the Otago
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