The Autobiography of a Maori
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Contents
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- Chapter I — Early Years at Orutua
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Chapter II — Early Years at Te Araroa
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- Watermelon-stealing Rampant
- An Inadequate Wage
- The Common Lolly and Pipe
- Mr. J. H. Pope
- Poisoned with Tutu
- A Strange Game
- The Sacred Moki
- Maori Justice
- A Taniwha's Lair
- Pawa and Rongokako
- Maroheia Petrified
- My Mother's Fairy Story
- Maomao Fishing
- Chasing the Monsters of the Deep
- Slaughter of Wild Pigeons
- A Community Breakfast
- Fat Kakas Shaken from Trees
- Snaring the Kaka
- Catching Fish with Hinaki
- Heremaia the Generous
- Wheat-growing Industry
- Bread Unknown
- Maize-growing Industry
- Captain Skinner's Fleet
- Ngati-Porou Tribe Engaged in Rye-grass Industry
- Inter-tribal Fights
- Chapter III — An Innocent Abroad
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Chapter IV — At Te Aute College
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- I Attend Wai-o-Matatini School
- I Try to get into Te Aute
- I Attend Gisborne Central
- Davis, the Ferryman
- My First Circus
- I Enter Te Aute College
- I Buy a Webster
- How Mr. Thornton Taught English
- Reminiscences of Mr. Thornton
- Life at Te Aute
- We Discover the Vegetable Caterpillar
- Failure to Scale Ruahine
- Te Aute and Football
- Historic Roto-a-Tara and a Sad Event
- A Historic Island Disappears
- Huhuti Swims to Her Lover
- Friends I Adore
- A Religious Revival
- Chapter V — At Canterbury College
- Chapter VI — At Te Rau College
- Chapter VII — Life at East Cape
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Chapter VIII — Stray Reminiscences
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- An Unrehearsed Performance
- Showing off
- "I am the Law"
- A Lawyer's "Criminal Practice"
- Toffee and Prayers
- Meat and Grace
- "36"
- "To His Eternal Shame"
- Wiping out a Sad Past
- Sport and Religion
- Football and Prayer-meeting
- One too Many
- A Referee Ordered Off
- Should the Stingy be Killed?
- No Sermon Without Notes
- Pudding as Stake
- Maoris Poor Debt-payers
- A Child's Awkward Questions
- The Young Maori Party Started
- Incredible Fish-stories
- Diving for Octopuses
- A Maori Woman's Struggle with an Octopus
- More Fish-stories
- Fish and Stone
- An Ominous Fish
- Jealous Husbands
- A Cruel Slander
- Some Greedy Men I Have Met
- Eels and Snakes
- Ngati-Porou Wags
- Tangi over a Wounded Pigeon
- The First Horse They Ever Saw
- A Massacre and its Result
- "Ko te Hera te Pakeha"
- "The Trotter"
- Two Short Maori Yarns
- Big Building at Auckland
- An Automatic Cheque
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