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Title: The Southern cross and Southern crown : or, The gospel in New Zealand
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Tucker, Sarah, d. ca. 1859
Subjects: Missions, New Zealand
Publisher: New York : R. Carter & Brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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them with a pretext forattacking a weaker tribe, and indulging the spirit ofrevenge that lay deep within their breasts. Feeling themselves lords of the ocean, their greatdelight Avas in their war-canoes ; and they laAished alltheir skill and taste in making and adorning them.These formidable vessels were simple in their construc-tion, and, when practicable, made from the hollowed stemof a single tree. They were often seventy or eighty feetin length, and would contain two hundred men. Thesail was triangular, something like the lateen sails ofthe Mediterranean, and woven of flax or rushes. Therewere sometimes fifty paddles on each side, a paddlealso served them as a rudder, and their speed wasabout seven knots an hour. Tlie head and stern rosehigh above the hull, and, as well as the margin of the * They too often paid dearly for this love of enterprise, in thebrutal treatment they received on board. t There were instances in which forty years had elapsed since theoffence was committed.
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I» I *i %0 I-- t^ f WAE. 17 boat itself, were elaborately carved, in some places in-laid with a pearly shell, and ornamented with feathers. The Maoris hatred of their enemies equalled theirattachment to their friends, and a Xevr Zealand battle-field presented a more than usually frightful scene.The preparatory war-dance was accompanied with tre-mendous yells and shoutings; the impetuous stampingof the feet made the very groimd to tremble; and everyface and limb was distorted till they scarcely seemedto be human beings *—all their mats were laid aside,their naked bodies were smeared with red and yellowochre, and the parrots feathers in their hair were sup-posed to add to the fierceness of their appearance. Theolder women of the tribe, daubed also with ochre, oftenaccompanied the men to the field, dancing and yelling,and instigating to deeds of daring and cruelty. Theyounger women and the slaves remained a little waybehind ; to them were committed the prisoners and theslain; the bodi

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