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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.*

State of the New Zealand in
1770. 1836. 1859.
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.

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Thomson's Story of New Zealand, vol. ii., p.294.