REMARKABLE NATIVE.
■ £ fEgnibnV.Oqifner.l 1 ." .[. r .'." 4-hout twee^e^' agq .^ r-en^affSable oli Native %Ked J a| '"' Pah near Opunaue. Qlcl l Nifcoruna was supposed by Europeans, ana Natives tc be over 120 %y ears p£ r.age at the time of his deaHi.'j * NAtaye children could remember NijKonma 'as a grownup warrior, when they; -were children. TJhey grew up to be v warriors, and m cdurse of time diec£p&s(^ age, but ql4 lived Qn. '^ey used tq believe that he must hafre seen Captain Straits, from what he^afterwarjls heard ojf Cook's voyages^ I one day as^ed the.. Natives thought of & ve'sseF'wh i en'they ; firafc &aw oai.-'''- Sef rißp]i^, f/ i' When I.first saw a vessel & wa l^ a* Dby "without' <nai&'*bn fay but did^SiobJctiiowj^hattit- was : weViat that time, thought ...itj w&ftjrjvery large bird. Yiears-yreutvon,; I Wftrriop with a full beards ap.d had been m Beveta^T^ghts A; ,when I i.ext :Saw an-., ' otner of t&se' lai^ge f birds; it 1 was' a Jong >py from th^e sfiore^ ancLwe w-on-^. dered^at the'siz^^'ttie Ugaiii; some time* after,' aftofclier''of tb'e§e white jbir.d». rappeared ; it -, came -near t(^ t^Q Bhore, and stopped all 'day \ ■ iheiW^wks' jno wind, so the boldest' of the people 'went out. m; canoe^jto- loqk ; at the.birdj. •but when vfs. got' near it%e|'awit^s' /not a bird, buiTa lai^e cmoe, and we [saw people . m ,th*afc large canoe with fires m their bellies, And the smoke coming' r "ou1r"of their~mouths; -When we Sa »v J the' people ! wiih fires m their bellies, we were afraid to go npa^er } we returned tq the shqre, and told what we lia'ettsee£-/ Pbtne :^ould not believe us, and went out to see these strangle 1 ' people! That '-I canoe. . aW^ :: «itl4 ii^e4^ ;ib & -talked of tov%\ long time. "We wondered at the sigej of the canoe, bttt^of^a^l-^'e Bad: Seen! what we wondered at most was -/thei men p with- ; fires i^in tHeiri belliea .-andj smoke coming out of their mouths L .ln! thp c.days we knew not how to smoks;| we 1 thought, when ■ wei> saw the sinokej 'ibming 6ut ! of -their uroutlis, that had fires m their bellies. '»; ■' j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 294, 15 November 1883, Page 2
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350REMARKABLE NATIVE. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 294, 15 November 1883, Page 2
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