Te Rou; or, The Maori at home.
Subtitle: A tale, exhibiting the social life, manners, habits, and customs of the Maori race in New Zealand prior to the introduction of civilisation amongst them.
By: By John White ...
Publisher: S. Low, Marston, Low, and Searle
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people)
Description: "A series of set pieces based on the life of a Māori tribe in the Hokianga region. Much on love, war and cannibaliam, presented by named characters within a pattern of Victorian expression and convention, which the numerous footnotes and elaborate textual explanaions of custom humanise only in part. Intended to be the first of a series. Revenge (W1065) was the only (posthumous) sequel"--Bagnall.