The Maori King Or The Story Of Our Quarrel With The Natives Of New Zealand PDF Download

Excerpt from The Maori King: Or the Story of Our Quarrel With the Natives of New Zealand It is convenient to observe here, that the Maori names which are generally used throughout the following pages for Maori chiefs and places, can be correctly pronounced by attending to three rules: - (1) The vowels have the Italian sound. (2) Diphthongs are pronounced by uttering the two component vowel-sonnds in one breath. (3) "Ng" is pronounced as in the word "singing." It has been sometimes necessary to use colonial or native words, such as "cultivations," "tapu," &c., to denote things which have not English names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.