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Title: Maoria: A Sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand

Author: Captain J. C. Johnstone

Publication details: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1874, London

Part of: Nineteenth-Century Novels Collection

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Maoria: A Sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand.

5. (Page 115.)

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5. (Page 115.)

This incident occurred in a duel fought in the neighbourhood of the author's house; it is the only occasion upon which he has known a Maori to show the white feather when under arms.

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