Tales of Banks Peninsula
Preface To Maori History
Preface To Maori History.
I am indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Tikao, Wiremu, Karaurko, Hakopa te ata o Tu, Te Aika, and many other well informed Natives, for the materials to compose this history of the Maori occupation of Banks Peninsula; and having written down the narrative from their verbal statements, I have often followed the Maori rather than the English idiom in my translation, which, however distasteful it may prove to the reader, will afford satisfactory evidence in future of the source from which my information was derived.
J.W.S
Duvauchelle's Bay, July 28, 1883.