Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century

by Smith, S. Percy

• ISBN13: 9781108039901
• ISBN10: 1108039901
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Stephenson Percy Smith (1840-1922) arrived in New Zealand as a boy, and in early 1858 travelled six hundred miles exploring the volcanic interior of North Island, including Taupo, Lake Tarawera and the Tongariro-Ruapehu area, returning via Rangitikei and Wanganui. He also witnessed the unrest caused by the rapid European encroachment on Maori lands. After retiring in 1900 from his career as a government surveyor, Smith devoted himself to the study of the Maori and co-founded the Polynesian Society, in whose journal this study originally appeared between 1899 and 1901. Reissued here in its enlarged second edition of 1910, it deals with the inter-tribal 'Musket Wars' of the early nineteenth century, when different Maori communities competed for territory shortly before European settlement began in earnest. Although Smith's interpretations do not meet modern scholarly standards, his pioneering work still provides fascinating insights into nineteenth-century Maori traditions and their colonial reception.

Table of Contents

Preface

The wars of the border-land, Nga-Puhi and others, 1795

Battle of Moremo-nui, Nga-Puha v. Ngati-Whatua, 1807

Further wars on the Border-land, 1808âÇô13

The Great Epidemic, 1810

Early northern expedition to the south, 1810

Muru-paenga's first expedition to Taranaki, 1810

Tau-kawau's first expedition to Taranaki, 1816

Marsden's first visit to Bay of Islands, 1814

Te Morenga and Hongi visit the East Cape, 1818

Tu-whare and Te Rauparaha's expedition to Port Nicholson, 1819âÇô20

Death of Tu-whare, 1820

The Wai-te-mata and Thames, 1820

War at Te Roto-a-Tara, 1819

Death of Nahu, fights at Te Aratipi, etc., 1820

Marsden's visit to Hauraki and Kaipara, 1820

Tareha's expedition to Kaipara, 1820

Cruise's visit to Waitemata and Hauraki, 1820

Te Morenga's visit to the Thames, 1820

Te Morenga's visit to the Tauranga, 1820

Marsden visits Katikati, 1820

Koriwhai's death, 1820

Titore and Te Wera's expedition to East Cape, and fall of Te Whetu-mata-rau, 1820âÇô1

Waipaoa, 1820âÇô1

Te Morenga's visit to Tamaki, death of Koperu, 1820âÇô1

Fall of Mauinaina to Hongi, Nov. 1821

Fall of Te Totara pa to Hongi, Dec. 1821

Pomare's raid on Tuhua, 1822

Death of Te Pae-o-te-rangi at Rotorua, 1822

'Te Amio-whenua' expedition, 1821âÇô2

Battle of Te Motu-nui, Taranaki, Nov. 1821

Fall of Matakitaki to Hongi, May 1822

Pomare's first visit to the Urewera country, 1822

Te Roto-a-Tara (Kaupapa), 1822

Fall of Mokoia, Rotorua, to Hongi, 1823

Pomare and Te Wera-Hamaki's expedition to the south, 1823

Pomare's peace with Ngati-Porou, 1823

Te Wera settles at Te Mahia Peninsula, 1823

Te Wera's doings at Heretaunga, 1824

Te Pakake, 1824

Peace between Nga-Puhi and Waikato, 1824

The 'Coquille' at the Bay of Islands, 1824

Troubles at Whangarei, 1824

Death of Te Toroa and Ragni-wai-tatao, at Wairoa, 1824

Te Mau-tara-nui visits the Bay of Islands, 1824

The fall of Titirangi, Puke-karoro, etc., pas, Hawke's Bay, 1824

Moumou-kai, Wai-kotero, Puke-karoro, 1824

Battle of Te Ika-a-ranga-nui, Kaipara, Feb. 1825

Death of Te Mau-tara-nui, 1826

Fall of Pohatu-roa, Hawke's Bay, 1826

Fall of Waihau, 1826

Fall of Noho-awatea, Waikato, 1825

Pomare's death, 1826

Death of Muru-paenga, 1826

The Wai-te-mata in 1827 (D'Urville's account), 1827

Rangi-tuke's expedition, 1827

Tawa-tawhiti fight, 1827

Rangi-tukia's expedition, 1828

Hongi Hika, his death, 1828

Taking of the 'Hawes', 1829

The death of Ngarara, 1829

The Girls' War, 1830

Ahuahu and Motiti (Te Haramiti's expedition), 1831

Pukerangi's expedition to Waikato, 1832

Titore's first expedition to Tauranga, 1831âÇô2

Matamata, 1932

Titore's second expedition to Tauranga, 1832âÇô3

Puckey's visit to Te Reinga, 1834

Toka-a-kuku, 1836

Expedition to Great Barrier, 1838

The coming of the white man, 1840

Index

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