First published anonymously in 1863, this classic book recounts the experiences of Frederick Edward Maning (c.1811-83), an Anglo-Irish trader who emigrated to Tasmania with his family as a boy and later relocated to New Zealand. A self-styled 'Pakeha-Maori' ('Pakeha' is the Maori word for a white New Zealander), Maning acquired land and settled down with a Maori woman, occupying a tenuous position between the two cultures. Observing that the old Maori way of life was rapidly disappearing due to the increased European presence in New Zealand, Maning endeavoured to record Maori customs and material culture before all knowledge of them disappeared. Old New Zealand is a mixture of history, autobiography and anecdote, and the author insists all the incidents and people described are real. The language is informal, and the narrative vigorous and rapid, with lively dialogues and occasional Maori phrases. A glossary explains Maori words and concepts.

Title: Old New Zealand: being incidents of native customs and character in the old times. By a Pakeha Maori i.e. F. E. Maning].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & the PACIFIC collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection offers titles providing historical context for modern day Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Pacific Islands (collectively, Oceania). It includes studies of their relationship to British colonial heritage, Trans-Tasman history, resistance to colonization, and histories of sailors, traders, missionaries, and adventurers. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; Herbert, George Robert Charles; Maning, Frederick Edward; 1876. xxiv. 278 p.; 8 . 10491.f.1.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. The market price of a Pakeha.?The value of a Pakeha ' as such.'?Maori hospitality in the good old times.?A respectable friend.?Maori mermaids.?My notions of the value of gold.?How I got on shore. Here I must remark that in those days the value of a pakeha to a tribe was enormous. For want of pakehas to trade with, and from whom to procure gunpowder and muskets, many tribes or sections of tribes were about this time exterminated, or nearly so, by their more fortunate neighbours who got pakehas before them, and who consequently became armed with muskets first. A pakeha trader was therefore of a value, say, about twenty times his own weight in muskets. This, according to my notes made at the time, I find to have represented a value in New Zealand something about what we mean in England when we talk of the sum total of the national debt. A book-keeper, or a second-ratepakeha, not a trader, might be valued at, say, his weight in tomahawks?an enormous sum also. The poorest labouring pakeha, though he might have no property, would earn something?his value to the chief and tribe with whom he lived might be estimated at, say, his weight in fishhooks, or about a hundred thousand pounds or so?value estimated by eagerness to obtain the article. The value of a musket was not to be estimated to a native by just what he gave for it. He gave all he had, or could procure; and had he ten times as much to give he would have given it, if necessary; or if not, he would buy ten muskets instead of one. Muskets, muskets, muskets ? nothing but muskets was the first demand of the Maori?muskets and gunpowder at any cost. I do not, however, mean to affirm that pakehas were at this time valued ' as such'?like Mr. Pickwick's silk stockings, which were very good and valuable stockings '...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. The market price of a Pakeha.?The value of a Pakeha ' as such.'?Maori hospitality in the good old times.?A respectable friend.?Maori mermaids.?My notions of the value of gold.?How I got on shore. Here I must remark that in those days the value of a pakeha to a tribe was enormous. For want of pakehas to trade with, and from whom to procure gunpowder and muskets, many tribes or sections of tribes were about this time exterminated, or nearly so, by their more fortunate neighbours who got pakehas before them, and who consequently became armed with muskets first. A pakeha trader was therefore of a value, say, about twenty times his own weight in muskets. This, according to my notes made at the time, I find to have represented a value in New Zealand something about what we mean in England when we talk of the sum total of the national debt. A book-keeper, or a second-ratepakeha, not a trader, might be valued at, say, his weight in tomahawks?an enormous sum also. The poorest labouring pakeha, though he might have no property, would earn something?his value to the chief and tribe with whom he lived might be estimated at, say, his weight in fishhooks, or about a hundred thousand pounds or so?value estimated by eagerness to obtain the article. The value of a musket was not to be estimated to a native by just what he gave for it. He gave all he had, or could procure; and had he ten times as much to give he would have given it, if necessary; or if not, he would buy ten muskets instead of one. Muskets, muskets, muskets ? nothing but muskets was the first demand of the Maori?muskets and gunpowder at any cost. I do not, however, mean to affirm that pakehas were at this time valued ' as such'?like Mr. Pickwick's silk stockings, which were very good and valuable stockings '...

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