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A
DARK CHAPTER
FROM
NEW ZEALAND HISTORY.
“Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.”
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JAMES WOOD, AT HIS PRINTINGOFFICE, TENNYSON-STREET, NAPIER, HAWKE’S BAY.
REPRINT PUBLISHED BY
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
1974
Printed offset by The Caxton Press, Christchurch
from the copy in the Canterbury Public Library, Christchurch
LIST OF CHAPTERS.
INTRODUCTION.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF POVERTY BAY.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
These pages have been chiefly written for such as desire to forwardto distant friends a brief connected account of one of those terriblemassacres, accompanied by wholesale destruction of property, whichbid fair to depopulate and lay waste the North Island of NewZealand.
It is possible that only vague, indefinite reports