Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- INTRODUCTION BY SIR JAMES HIGHT
- PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION
- PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
- A COMMENT BY BERNARD SHAW
- NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- POEM: NEW ZEALAND
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PART ONE BY W. P. REEVES
- CHAPTER I. The Long White Cloud (page 25)
- CHAPTER II. The Maori (page 47)
- CHAPTER III. The Maori and the Unseen (page 65)
- CHAPTER IV. The Navigators (page 75)
- CHAPTER V. No Man's Land (page 87)
- CHAPTER VI. Mission Schooner and Whale Boat (page 98)
- CHAPTER VII. The Muskets of Hongi (page 110)
- CHAPTER VIII. "A Man-of-War Without Guns" (page 127)
- CHAPTER IX. The Dreams of Gibbon Wakefield (page 136)
- CHAPTER X. In the Caudine Forks (page 144)
- CHAPTER XI. Through Weakness into War (page 155)
- CHAPTER XII. Good Governor Grey (page 168)
- CHAPTER XIII. The Pastoral Provinces (page 177)
- CHAPTER XIV. Learning to Walk (page 189)
- CHAPTER XV. Governor Browne's Bad Bargain (page 196)
- CHAPTER XVI. Tupara Against Enfield (page 200)
- CHAPTER XVII. The Fire in the Fern (page 211)
- CHAPTER XVIII. Gold-Diggers and Gum-Diggers (page 227)
- CHAPTER XIX. Vogel and the Public Works Policy (page 236)
- CHAPTER XX. In Parliament (page 245)
- CHAPTER XXI. Some Bones of Contention (page 258)
- CHAPTER XXII. The End of the Oligarchy (page 270)
- CHAPTER XXIII. The Eight Years' Tussle (page 281)
- CHAPTER XXIV. "King Dick" (page 295)
- CHAPTER XXV. The Experimental Laws (page 308)
- PART TWO By A. J. HARROP
- Appendix I: New Zealand Literature
- Appendix II: Poem: The Passing of the Forest
- Index