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CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 
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CHAPTER I. 
. Early History of New Zealand — Tasman, 1642 — Cook, 1769 — 
1^ Church Mission, 1814 — Magistrates appointed — Wesleyan 
Mission, 1822 — Travellers and their books — Visit of Hongi to 
England, 1820 — Baron de Thierry — 'New Zealand Company of 
1825 — " Land-sharking" and straggling colonization — Hongi's 
iS«^ fire-arras — Bloodshed and depopulation — Captain Stewart and 
Rauperaha — Letter of Thirteen Chiefs to "William IV., 1831 — 
British Resident — Continuation of wars — Declaration of Inde- 
*\i pendence and Recognition of Flag, 1835 — Absurdities— New 
*^ Zealand Association of 1837 — Negotiations with Government — 
Hostility of Mr, Dandeson Coates — Offer by Lord Glenelg of a 
Charter to the Association — Refused : why — Mr. Baring's Bill, 
^' 1838 — New Zealand Land Company of 1839 — Its views — 
Colonel Wakefield appointed to take charge of Preliminary 
% Expedition — I resolve to accompany him . . . Page 1 
C^ CHAPTER II. 
Departure from Plymouth — Passengers — Voyage — First sight of 
New Zealand — Cook's Strait — Queen Charlotte's Sound — Ship 
^J^j Cove — Natives — Village — Wretched houses — Dispute with 
Natives — Reconciliation — European settlement — Messenger sent 
— Returns with two Englishmen — Mountains — Forest — Scenery 
of Queen Charlotte's Sound — Tory Channel — Native Pa, or 
^ Fort — H. M, B. Pelorus — • Te-awa-iti — Richard Barrett — Tribes 
\ of Cook's Strait — Proprietorship of land unsettled — 'Vague no- 
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CHAPTER III. 
The Whaling-town — Try-works — Joseph Toms — History of Te- 
awa-iti — Foundation — Hardships — Progress — Wages of whalers 
— Summer life — Jealousies — Lawlessness — Hospitality — Clean- 
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