A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827

so large and so close together that in many places we had some difficulty to squeeze ourselves through them. To add to o

crambled with all the agility of cats or monkeys; but it was not so with us: for several times they seated one of us on the top of their load, and carried him over. The chief, who acco

patch of land. He appeared highly delighted at beholding strangers; and all his wives came from their occupations to welcome us. He told us that,

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n, rubbed noses with him (their

s from the missionaries, who had orders from Home to distribute these useful animals amongst such chiefs as they thought would take care of them: a wise and beneficial measure. These animals were tabooed, consequently they cou