TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campbell,John Logan
AU  - Stevens,Joan
AU  - Cowan,James
TI  - Poenamo: sketches of the early days in New Zealand : romance and reality of Antipodean life in the infancy of a new colony 
AV  - DU422.C3 A3 1952
U1  - 919.31104 
PY  - 1952///
CY  - Christchurch [N.Z.]
PB  - Whitcombe & Tombs
KW  - Campbell, John Logan,
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Auckland
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Auckland (N.Z.)
KW  - Coromandel Peninsula (N.Z.)
KW  - Browns Island (N.Z.)
N1  - Reprinted 1953, Whitcombe & Tombs job no. G4108; First ed. published: London & Edinburgh : Williams and Norgate, 1881; "Published with the aid of the New Zealand Literary Fund"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Myself : Why & how I became a doctor : decision to emigrate -- Ho for the great South land -- I forswear the great convict land -- Town that never was : King of Waiau -- Start on the exploring expedition -- We sing & row ourselves over the Hauraki -- Timber-draggers : pull for dear life -- Night camp : Morning's vision -- Isthmus of corinth of the Antipodes -- Mess of pottage which floored the King of Waiau's grand scheme -- With the Maori on the Hauraki Shore : Why we invaded Waiomu -- We are adopted by the Ngati Tamatera -- We secure apartments for the Winter season -- De Pluribus Maori rebus -- Maori wake (Tangi) -- Gunpowder explosion : Doctor wanted -- Steeped in Tapu -- Maori philosophy -- Farewell to Waiomu -- How a new colony is born to an old nation : Two pioneer pakehas of the Waitemata -- Monarchs of all they surveyed : Monarchs turn well-sinkers -- I present our credentials to the Ngatitai : Early missionary -- I learn what Taihoa means -- Writing in expectancy -- My maiden venture in the field of commerce -- Capital is born to us : Flagstaff that was never accepted -- We change the current of our lives : we visit our newly born child -- How we shave a pig -- We adopt our child -- Capital of Poenamo in 1841 : how we lived then -- An episode : Our first Maori scare : Conclusion -- To my children; Bagnall; C99
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