Oceana Or England And Her Colonies
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The pool is called, after the lady, Hinemoia's bath, and the adventure is the subject of many a Maori ballad and love- song. \The history connected with" Mokoia is more tragic. In the early days of the missionaries, some sixty years ago, there was a famous warrior in these parts named Hangi. He was a man of some intellect, and wishing to know something more about the white men who were coming into New Zealand, he went under the missionaries' auspices to England, was intro- duced, I believe, to ...Exeter Hall at any rate was made much of, and was presented with a good sum of money to be used in civilising and Christianising his countrymen. This money he laid out secretly in guns and powder, stored them on board ship, and brought them home with him. He had an old feud with the Mokoia Islanders. He demanded their submission, with these new arms to back him. The Mokoians, secure as they supposed in their water-guarded home, laughed at him and defied him. He dragged his canoes thirty miles over land, launched them on the lake, stormed the island, and killed everybody that he found alive in it men, women, and children.
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The pool is called, after the lady, Hinemoia's bath, and the adventure is the subject of many a Maori ballad and love- song. \The history connected with" Mokoia is more tragic. In the early days of the missionaries, some sixty years ago, there was a famous warrior in these parts named Hangi. He was a man of some intellect, and wishing to know something more about the white men who were coming into New Zealand, he went under the missionaries' auspices to England, was intro- duced, I believe, to ...Exeter Hall at any rate was made much of, and was presented with a good sum of money to be used in civilising and Christianising his countrymen. This money he laid out secretly in guns and powder, stored them on board ship, and brought them home with him. He had an old feud with the Mokoia Islanders. He demanded their submission, with these new arms to back him. The Mokoians, secure as they supposed in their water-guarded home, laughed at him and defied him. He dragged his canoes thirty miles over land, launched them on the lake, stormed the island, and killed everybody that he found alive in it men, women, and children.
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