The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Rare Volume
Chronological Statement Showing the Progressive Civilization Now Going on Among the New Zealanders.*
Chronological Statement Showing the Progressive Civilization Now Going on Among the New Zealanders.*
1770. | 1836. | 1859. |
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1. Cannibls. | Cannibalism practised. | No instance of cannibalism since 131-1. |
2. Vara frequent. | Wars frequent. | No general civil war for eighteen years. |
3. Knowledge of the art of war without fire-arms | Knowledge of the art of war with fire-anus. | Knowledge of the art of war to resist European. |
4. Murdersfrequent from superstition. | Murderslessfrequent than in 1770. | Murderslessfrequent than In 1836. |
5. Child-murucreonunou | Child-murderless frequent than in 1770. | Child-murderlessfrequent quent than in 1836. |
6. Strangers not tolerated. | Strangers tolerated. | Anxiety to have English settlementsnear villages. |
7. One-tenth of the people slaves. | Ono-tenth of the people slaves. | Slavery extinct. |
8. Population estimated at 100,000. | Population variously estimated. | Population estimated at 56,000. |
9. Language unwritten. | Lauguage written, protions of Scriptures translated. | All the Scriptures translated, several books printed in Maori. |
10. Notprotected from small pox. | Not protected from smallpox. | Two-thirds of the people pox vaccinated. |
11. No potatoes, pigs, or cattle. | Putaties and pigs abound, few cattle. | potatoes, pigs, and cattle numerous. |
12. Plough unknown. | Plough unused. | Plough in frequent use. |
13. Wheat unknown. | Wheat rarely cultivated. | Extensive wheat cultivations. |
14. No commerce. | Trade limited to ships. | Extensivetradowith English settlements.page 26 |
15. Native laws in force. | Native laws in force. | Occasional reference to English Courts, anxiety for English laws. |
16. Huts badly ventilated. | Huts badly ventilated. | Huts badly ventilated, a few wooden houses. |
17. Native dross in use. | Blankets in occasional use | Blankets and imperfect European dress common |
18. Native food. | Native food, with pigs and potatoes. | Native food, with pigs, potatoes and wheat. |
19. Dead not interred. | Dead occasionally interred | Dead almost always interred. |
20. No half-castes. | A few half-castes. | Nearly 2000 half-castes. |
21. No fire-arms. | Fire-arms and ammunition abundant. | Double-barrelled guns and ammunition abundant. |
22. Tea and sugar unknown. | Tea and sugar never used. | Tea and sugar in frequent use. |
23. No European settlers. | About 1000 Europeans in the country. | Nearly 60,000 Europeans in the country. |
24. European ships plundered. | Ships occasionally plundered. | Ships never plundered. |
25. Tobacco and spirits unknown. | Tobacco-smoking in use, spirits rarely used. | Tobacco-smoking universal, spirits occasionally drunk. |
26. Iron, nails, and coloured clothes taken as payment for curiosities. | Gunpowder, tobacco, and blankets, taken in exchange for flax, pigs, and potatoes. | Money alone an article of exchange, no idea of interest for money. |
27. Women subjected to much labour. | Women lead lives of labour. | Women do much labour. |
28. Native cookery in use. | Native cookery in use. | Pots, pans, and native cookery in use. |
29. Christianity unknown | 1500 Christians. | 35,000 Christians. |
30. Believed in a future state. | Believed in a future state. | Believed in a future state. |
31. Property in common. | Property in common. | Moveable property individualized, land occasionally. |
32 Wars, tapus, feasts, subjects of conversation. 33. Tribes kept apart by ancient feuds. | Wars, fire-arms, selling land, Christianity, the subjects of conversation. Tribes kept apart by ancient feuds. | Trade, ships, land, flour, laws, ploughs, horses, wheat, &c., the subjects. Union of some ancient foes for mutual protection. |
34. Stimulated to work by hunger. | Stimulated to work by hunger and the wish for flrc-arms, &c. | Stimulated to work by hunger, and to obtain various articles of use and luxury. |
35. The people distrusted each other. | The people distrusted each other. | With few exceptions the people trust each other. |
36. "Come on shore, and we will kill and eat you all." were the defiantwords addressed to some of the early navigators. | Several chiefe dying about this time exhorted their followers to protect the M isslonarics, evenif they waged war against the traders. | "Were we to turn against the settlers, we should be shutting up the road by which wo receive many advantages," said Moanut, In his letter to the Hawke's-Bay Journal, in 1857. |
Thomson's Story of New Zealand, vol. ii., p.294.