THE OCCUPATION OF THE CHATHAM ISLANDS BY THE MAORIS IN 1835 - PART I

THE MIGRATION OF NGATIAWA TO PORT NICHOLSON.
THE following account has been derived from the Maoris themselves, many of those who supplied the information having been actors in the scenes here related. The story has been checked wherever possible by members of other tribes, who either themselves or their fathers were engaged in the same incidents. Recourse has been had to European sources for some of the dates, for the Maoris do not know anything of chronology in our sense of the word. Such as it is, it is believed to be the fullest account ever yet published of the migration of the Taranaki tribes from their former homes to the neighbourhood of Cook's Strait, whilst the actual occupation of the Chatham Islands by them has never before been written. Mr. W. T. L. Travers, in vol. V., Transactions of the N.Z. Institute, has given an interesting account of the Ngatitoa migration from Kawhia, which is intimately mixed up with that of Ngatiawa. The Maori account of the seizure of the French whaler Jean Bart places an entirely different aspect on this episode to that given by the French, and proves that the Maoris were not so much to blame in the matter as has generally been supposed. The history of the Maori occupation of the Auckland Islands is quite new, and adds another interesting chapter to the history of the race.
http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_1_1892/Volume_1,_No._2,_1892/The_occupation_of_the_Chatham_Islands_by_the_Maoris_in_1835%3A_Part_1_-_the_Migration_of_Ngatiawa_to_Port_Nicholson,_by_A._Shand/p1

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