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Title: Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)
or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand

Author: William Delisle Hay

Release Date: June 9, 2009 [EBook #29070]

Language: English

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BRIGHTER BRITAIN

OR

SETTLER AND MAORI

IN

_NORTHERN NEW ZEALAND._

BY

WILLIAM DELISLE HAY,

AUTHOR OF "THREE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE," "THE DOOM OF THE GREAT CITY,"
ETC.

"Queen of the seas, enlarge thyself!
Send thou thy swarms abroad!
For in the years to come,--
Where'er thy progeny,
Thy language and thy spirit shall be found,--
If--
--in that Austral world long sought,
The many-isled Pacific,--
When islands shall have grown, and cities risen
In cocoa-groves embower'd;
Where'er thy language lives.
By whatsoever name the land be call'd,
That land is English Still."

SOUTHEY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1882.

(_All rights reserved._)

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCELES.

PREFACE.

This book is descriptive of things as they are in a part of New Zealand,
together with some reference to past history. It does not attempt to
handle the colony as a whole, but refers to scenes within the northern
half of the North Island only. This part of the country, the natural
home of the kauri pine, is what I here intend to specify under the title
of Northern New Zealand.

I am not an emigration-tout, a land-salesman, or a tourist. When I went
to New Zealand I went there as an emigrant. Not until a few days before
I left its shores had I any other idea but that the rest of my life was
destined to be that of a colonist, and that New Zealand was my fixed and
permanent home. I have, therefore, writte