Transcriber's Note:
Discrepancies between the detail of the list of illustrations, and thetext accompanying the illustrations themselves, have been retained.
The list also omits the table of Te Rauparaha's wives and children,that has been inserted at the end of the book before the map of hisand Te Puoho's raids. It is reproduced in this version.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies inhyphenation have been retained.
AN OLD NEW ZEALANDER

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TE RAUPARAHA.
                      After a drawing in the Hocken Collection, Dunedin.
Frontispiece.
AN OLD NEW ZEALANDER
OR, TE RAUPARAHA, THE
NAPOLEON OF THE SOUTH
BY
T. LINDSAY BUICK
AUTHOR OF "OLD MARLBOROUGH," "OLD MANAWATU"

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WHITCOMBE & TOMBS, LIMITED
LONDON MELBOURNE
                      CHRISTCHURCH, WELLINGTON AND DUNEDIN, N.Z.
                      1911

To
S. PERCY SMITH, Esq., F.R.G.S.
"A WELL-DESERVING PILLAR" IN THE TEMPLE
                      OF POLYNESIAN LEARNING, I GRATEFULLY
                      DEDICATE THIS BOOK
PREFACE
I havebeen constrained to write the story of "An Old New Zealander"largely to gratify the frequently expressed desire for a morecomprehensive sketch of Te Rauparaha's career on the part of manyreaders of my former books, in which fitful glimpses of the old chiefwere given. These references have apparently awakened someconsiderable interest in the life and times of the great Ngatitoan,and although this period of New Zealand's history is by no meansbarren of literature, I am hopeful that there is still room for avolume in which much heterogeneous matter has been grouped andconsolidated. There may be some amongst the reading public who willquestion the need, or the wisdom, of recording the savage andsanguinary past of the Maori; but history is always history, and ifthis contribution serves no other useful purpose, it may at least helpto emphasise the marvellous transformation which has been worked inthe natives of New Zealand since Te Rauparaha's time—a transformationwhich can be accounted one of the world's greatest triumphs formissionary enterprise. It may be, too, that some criticswill not subscribe to my estimate of the chief's character, because ithas been the conventional view that he who refused to part with hisown and his people's heritage was destitute of a redeeming feature.Owing to the misrepresentation of the early settlers and traders hehas been greatly misunderstood by their successors; and they havefurther added to the injustice by sometimes seeking to measure one whowas steeped in heathen darkness by the holy standard which was raisedby the Founder of Christianity. As in the careers of most conquerors,there is much in the life of Te Rauparaha that will not bearcondonation; but in ever                        
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