Contents

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The Last Stand of Te Amotu	1
The Swimmer: How Te Rau-o-te-Rangi crossed the Strait of Kapiti	8
The Missionaries of Matamata	14
The Pirates of the Wellington Brig: How the Chief Mate of the Sisters captured a Convict Crew	22
The Storming Party at Ohaeawai	31
Rags of Glory: The Colours of the 58th	38
The Bugler of Boulcott's Farm	40
The Dispatch Carrier	45
Manihera's Farewell	52
The Swordsman in the Swamp	58
The Scouts in the Flax Bush: A Von Tempsky Story	62
How Sergeant McKenna won the Victoria Cross: A Night in the Maori Bush	69
The Church in the Forest: How the Settlers held Pukekohe Stockade	78
The Weird of MacGillivray: A Tale of Second Sight	87
The Defenders of Orakau	99
Brave Women: Two Heroic Figures—Ahumai te Paerata and Huria Matenga	111
A Can of Cold Water: The Heroine of the Gate Pa	120
The Defence of Turuturu-mokai Redoubt: The “Rorke's Drift” of New Zealand	130
Brown Skin and White: A Tale of the West Coast Frontier	142
The Midnight Warning	151
A Meal at Paewhenua	158
The Last Cartridge: A Memory of the Whakatane Valley	163
The Defence of the Mill: The Story of a Gallant Frenchman	169
The Bugle in the Mountains: An Episode of the First Urewera Campaign	174
Ears in the Forest	180
A Running Battle: How Gilbert Mair saved Rotorua	187
Maro and Her Lovers	193
Patriots of the Taranaki Border	199
The Missionary and the Hauhau Apostles	207

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Farmers of the Frontier: How the Waitotara Settlers Saved their Stock	212
The Last of the Scouts: Tales of the Guides and Forest Rangers	221
Te Whiti of Taranaki: The Story of a Patriot and Peacemaker	236
Explorers and Pathfinders: The Spade of Rakaihaitu	247
First Over the Alps: The Epic of Raureka and the Greenstone	252
The Cruise of the Gipsy: A Pioneer Surveyor on the Golden Coast	258
Explorers of Fiordland: Donald Sutherland and Quinton McKinnon	270
The Coracle of Disappointment Island: A Story of Sea Heroes	279
Notes	286
Index	287

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