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• Earthquake convulsions, 169.
• Education at mission stations, 143.
• Edwardson, Captain—His quarters in Chalky, 63—Observation re the natives, 98—Earthquake, 169.
• Eoling party surprised, 111.
• Elizabeth (brig) and Captain Stewart, 179.
• Elizabeth-Henrietta an "irreclaimable wreck," 63.
• Emerald Isle reproduced in N.Z., 98.
• Emigrant (French) vessel Compt de Paris, 54.
• Emigration fund, 44.
• Empire City in 1839— Letter by John Pearce—Good shipping port—Vegetation constantly going on— Potato culture, 31.
• First horse in Wellington—Prices currant —No reptiles or venomous things, 32.
• Enderby, Charles—Re colonisation, 27—In re southenn whale fisheries, 122—exclusive possession of Aucklands—The project—Appointed chief commissioner, 157.
• English oak, 177.
• English ships in southern whale fisheries, 120.
• English whale ships in these waters, 129.
• Enormous land claims, 96.
• Erroneous estimate re Southern Island— Natives less intelligent—Unable to understand a bargain—Natives not of the same race, 12.
• Estimated expenses of colony, 47.
• [unclear: Europere] N. Z. flax, 78.
• Europeans—Bad class—Depraved shipmasters—Morality at the lowest, ebb.—Native women, 26.
• Efforts to improve them wholly abandoned, 27.
• Evangelistic work at Ruapuke, 115.
• Exaggerated accounts of native barbarity, 143.
• Excessive charges for supplies at whale stations, 133.
• Excessive land acquisition by missionaries, 137.
• Exclusive possession of Auckland Islands, 155.
• Explosion of a ship's gun, 168.
• Export trade, 73.
• Extraordinary animal of the kangaroo species, 172.