title: A Concise History of New Zealand (Cambridge Concise Histories)
author:  Philippa Mein Smith 
description: &#147;Mein Smith's addition to the publisher's &#147;Concise Histories&#148; series is an exceptionally well-written, well-documented analysis of New Zealand's remarkable development from its earliest Maori beginnings through the discovery and settlement by Pakehas (Europeans) to the present...Helpful maps, illustrations, glossary, chronology, and bibliography make this an excellent undergraduate/graduate supplement...Highly recommended.&#148; -CHOICE, W.W. Reinhardt, Randolph-Macon College
zlib_text: # BRIGHTER BRITAIN
  
  #### OR
  
  ## SETTLER AND MAORI
  
  #### IN
  
  ###  _NORTHERN NEW ZEALAND._
  
  #### BY
  
  ## WILLIAM DELISLE HAY,
  
  AUTHOR OF "THREE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE," "THE DOOM OF THE GREAT CITY," ETC.  
    
  
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  > "Queen of the seas, enlarge thyself!
  
    
  
  > Send thou thy swarms abroad!
  
    
  
  > For in the years to come,—
  
    
  
  > Where'er thy progeny,
  
    
  
  > Thy language and thy spirit shall be found,—
  
    
  
  > If—
  
    
  
  > —in that Austral world long sought,
  
    
  
  > The many-isled Pacific,—
  
    
  
  > When islands shall have grown, and cities risen
  
    
  
  > In cocoa-groves embower'd;
  
    
  
  > Where'er thy language lives.
  
    
  
  > By whatsoever name the land be call'd,
  
    
  
  > That land is English Still."
  
    
    
  
  > Southey.
  
    
  
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  IN TWO VOLUMES.—Vol. I.  
    
  LONDON:  
  RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,  
  NEW BURLINGTON STREET.  
    
  1882.  
  ( _All rights reserved._ )  
    
  PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCELES.
  
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  ##  PREFACE.
  
  This book is descriptive of things as they are in a p