Henty George Alfred. Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War
CHAPTER I. A HOME BROKEN UP
CHAPTER II. THE EMBARKATION
CHAPTER III. THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER IV. A ROW ON SHORE
CHAPTER V. A BOAT EXPEDITION
CHAPTER VI. PUTTING IN THE REFIT
CHAPTER VII. A SAVAGE SURPRISE
CHAPTER VIII. THE END OF THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER IX. THE NEW ZEALAND WAR
CHAPTER X. THE GLADE
CHAPTER XI. THE HAU-HAUS
CHAPTER XII. THE FIRST ALARM
CHAPTER XIII. THE ATTACK ON THE GLADE
CHAPTER XIV. FRESH TROUBLES
CHAPTER XV. THE MASSACRE AT POVERTY BAY
CHAPTER XVI. THE PURSUIT OF TE KOOTI
CHAPTER XVII. BACK AT THE FARM
CHAPTER XVIII. IN ENGLAND
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The Flying Scud was to sail in ten days; and this was ample time for their preparations, for Mrs. Renshaw wisely decided that it was better to buy all that was requisite for starting their new life, in New Zealand.
"We have none of us the least idea what will be required," she said. "It will be far better to pay somewhat higher prices for what we really do want out there than to cumber ourselves with all sorts of things that may be useless to us. We have already a considerable amount of baggage. There are our clothes, linen, and books, your father's two double-barrelled guns, which, by the way, I do not think he has ever used since we have been married. The only thing we had better get, as far as I see, will be four rifles, which no doubt we can buy cheap second-hand, and four revolvers.
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"We shall not mind at all," Wilfrid and Marion exclaimed together, for there was something so pleasant about Mr. Atherton's manner they felt that he would be a delightful companion.
"Very well, then; we will regard that as settled. Then we five will occupy the seats on one side of the chief officer."
