CONTENTS

[PART I]
THE MAORI
[CHAPTER I]
The Coming of the Race[3]
[CHAPTER II]
The Men who Came[10]
[CHAPTER III]
The Land to which they Came[20]
[CHAPTER IV]
The Growth of the Race[35]
[CHAPTER V]
The Life of Every Day[48]
[CHAPTER VI]
Grim-visaged War[55]
[PART II]
THE COMING OF THE PAKEHA
[CHAPTER VII]
The Dutchman's Loss[69]
[CHAPTER VIII]
The Briton's Gain[79]
[CHAPTER IX]
Clouds at Dawn[89]
[CHAPTER X]
Rongo Pai![101]
[CHAPTER XI]
The Wars of Hongi Ika[108]
[CHAPTER XII]
Various Rulers[119]
[PART III]
PAKEHA AND MAORI
[CHAPTER XIII]
Great Britain Wins[133]
[CHAPTER XIV]
Independence and Argument[143]
[CHAPTER XV]
Te Rauparaha and Honi Heke[158]
[CHAPTER XVI]
The Fall of Kororareka[172]
[CHAPTER XVII]
Heke and Kawiti on the Warpath[177]
[CHAPTER XVIII]
The Fall of the Bat's Nest[192]
[CHAPTER XIX]
The War in the South[201]
[CHAPTER XX]
Building and Upsetting[215]
[CHAPTER XXI]
O'erclouded Skies[225]
[CHAPTER XXII]
The Queen Moves[239]
[CHAPTER XXIII]
The Black Knight Gives Check[244]
[CHAPTER XXIV]
Pai Marire, or the Hauhau Sect[254]
[CHAPTER XXV]
Murder most Foul[262]
[CHAPTER XXVI]
Alarms! Excursions![272]
[CHAPTER XXVII]
Poverty Bay[280]
[CHAPTER XXVIII]
The Last Rally[288]
[CHAPTER XXIX]
The Sun of Peace[307]
[CHAPTER XXX]
The Dominion of New Zealand[318]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Heke fells the Flagstaff at Kororareka]
[Farewell to Hawaiki]
[Victors in the Fight]
[The Fight in Massacre Bay]
[Hongi's last "Word" to his People]
[A Dreadful Recognition]
[Signing the Treaty of Waitangi]
[Phillpotts at Oheawai]
[A Boy's Heroism. "Awake! Awake!"]
[Major Witchell's Charge at Nukumaru]
[The Frenzy of the Hauhau. The Incantation]
[Butters gives the Alarm—Poverty Bay]

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