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REMARKS ON THE DISPOSITIONS, CUSTOMS, MANNERS, &c. OF
THE NATIVE INHABITANTS OF TH A T COUNTRY.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
S O M E P A R T I C U L A R S O F N E W Z E A L A N D ;
COMPILED, BY PERMISSION,
FROM THE MSS. OF LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR KING.
By D A V I D C O L L I N S , Efquire,
l a t e ju d g e a d v o c a t e a n d s e c r e t a r y o f t h e c o l o n y .
ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS.
<< Many might be faved who now fuffer an ignominious and an early death; and many
jgj might be fo much purified in the furnace of punifhment and adverfity, as to
« become the ornaments of that fociety of which they had formerly been the bane. The
- “ vices of mankind muft frequently require the feverity of juftice; but a wife State will
« direft that feverity to the greateft moral and political good.” A non.
L O N D O N :
PRINTED FOR T . CADELL JUN. a n d W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.
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