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Thomas Lindsay Buick. An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South
An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
LAMENT ON THE CAPTURE OF TE RAUPARAHA
CHAPTER I. WHENCE AND WHITHER?
CHAPTER II. ARAWA AND TAINUI
CHAPTER III. A WARRIOR IN THE MAKING
CHAPTER IV. THE LAND OF PROMISE
CHAPTER V. THE SOUTHERN RAIDS
CHAPTER VI. THE SMOKING FLAX
CHAPTER VII. WAKEFIELD AND THE WAIRAU
CHAPTER VIII. THE CAPTIVE CHIEF
CHAPTER IX. WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE
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Thomas Lindsay Buick
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Wars and rumours of wars are again heard of, and are given as the underlying cause of the next movement southward from Indonesia, the date of which is so uncertain that it cannot safely be defined more strictly than as between the first and fourth centuries. It is unfortunate that we are driven to this loose estimate of time for so important a national event, because it was this final migration which led to the actual entry into Polynesia of these dark-blooded wanderers, and if our first hypothesis be correct, to their ultimate fusion with the fair-skinned, stone-building people who had preceded them by many centuries.
They had obviously come into contact with strange people and strange animals, for the existence of the former has been preserved in their traditions and the memory of the latter in their fantastic carvings. Not the least interesting of their stories is the finding of a fair-complexioned people, whom their fancy has elevated into the realm of fairies, and from whom they claim to have learned the art of net-making. Whether these mysterious people, who are said to have laboured only at night and to have vanished when the sun rose, were the original Caucasians who, we have supposed, set out from the eastern coast of Asia, and who were about to be absorbed by the more virile emigrants from India, or whether they were, as some suggest, a few wandering Greeks or Phœnicians on the coast of Sumatra, we cannot pretend to decide. But, in all its vagueness and fanciful setting, the tradition is interesting, as indicating the existence on their route of a people fairer than themselves, and the fact that they must have come into close personal contact with them. A careful reflection upon the probable circumstances attending the story of how Kahu-kura captured one of the fairy's nets inclines us to the opinion that it is the first evidence we have of the contact of the Indian branch of the Polynesian race with their whiter predecessors. These they would meet in island after island as they moved down the Pacific towards Fiji, which group they are believed to have occupied about A.D. 450.
