A narrative of a nine months' residence in New Zealand in 1827 : together with a journal of a residence in Tristan D'Acunha, an island situated between South America and the Cape of Good Hope
Description: "Earle's crowded six months (not nine) in northern New Zealand gave posterity a double legacy. In his text a fascinating if not unprejudiced outline of Maori social life and custom and European intruders in the amalgam's most unsettled decade; in the sketches not merely landscapes but a series of reclining or posturing figures, the most striking of any visitor since the navigators' artists. Earle crossed from Sydney to Hokianga in 1827, moving across after a short stay to the Bay of Islands. The Narrative crisply depicts not merely the set scenes, such as tatooing, the haka, a hui to discuss peace or war, the grimmer aspects of eliminating an expendable slave or errant wife, but an almost pastoral glimpse of village agriculture. The death of Hongi, the tensions, local conflicts, and disputes contrast with his strictures on the missionaries, later challenged and, like S.M.D. Martin's 14 years on, unwarrantably extreme, prompted by a genuine sympathy for the Maori when treated fairly and with regard to tribal protocol"--Bagnall 1757.
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Earle's crowded six months (not nine) in northern New Zealand gave posterity a double legacy. In his text a fascinating if not unprejudiced outline of Maori social life and…