HUNDRED YEARS AGO TO-DAY
\ NELSON CHRONOLOGY Ist September, 1842: l Ekkawa is the chief of this place. He was absent and two relatives of his seemed the leading men. The name of one was Ehou. The other had a bushy head of hair, of a colour between rust and tow which contrasted oddly with the close bright blue lines, engine turned as it were, on the mahogany ground of his face. This gentleman affected a European dress. On his rusty head was cocked a rustier beaver hat. which I mistook for straw from its colour, with high peaked crown and narrow sloping brim, too small by half for his | ferruginous mop-covered pate. A | blue frock coat was stretched over his brawny shoulders (in imminent danger of splitting) the sleeves of which ! seemed to cramp his arms horribly, his great hands far below the cuffs, evidently expanding with delight a» their liberation from the restraint of the I sleeves. ! —Notes on an excursion to Massacre ! Bay
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 4
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