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len.george
@len.george Mar 4, 2020, 4:55 AM UTC

how about a "how to do it" run through

For a while, I have sat back and let those who appeared to know what they were doing run the ship. I imagine that there are quite a few small fishes like me out here in the big ocean doing the same.…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 9, 2019, 5:51 AM UTC

Von Tempsky, One Of The British Soldiers During The Taranaki War, 1860s to 1858. Part 3

British regulars had shown little aptitude for this type of warfare and consequently were at a disadvantage. While working as a war correspondent for the Daily Southern Cross, Tempsky accompanied a c…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 8, 2019, 5:15 AM UTC

Von Tempsky, One Of The British Soldiers During The Taranaki War, 1860s to 1858. Part 2

On his news-hunting rides from Drury to the military posts in the district in the winter of 1863, Von Tempsky frequently called at a solitary house on the edge of the bush, between Papakura and Wairo…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 7, 2019, 5:20 AM UTC

Von Tempsky, One Of The British Soldiers During The Taranaki War, 1860s to 1858. Part 1

Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky was born at Königsberg (Kaliningrad), East Prussia, on 15 February 1828. Image Source He was the younger son of Julius Louis von Tempsky and his wife, Karoline Henriett…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 6, 2019, 5:35 AM UTC

Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #37

Kimble [Kimball] Bent Image Source From Hukatere the pakeha-Maori and his girl wife went to Taiporohenui, Bent's old home in the war days. There he lived for a year or so, blanketed like a Maori, and…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 5, 2019, 5:02 AM UTC

Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #36

A story related by Bent is illustrative of the Maori belief, up to quite modern days, in malignant beings which made their homes in lonely waters and in caves, the dreaded taniwha. The tale of the “T…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 4, 2019, 5:28 AM UTC

Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #35

More than one outlaw from the white country outside took refuge in the Taranaki bush even in those post-bellum days. One of these was Hiroki, the Maori who killed McLean. Hiroki (“The Lean One”) had…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 3, 2019, 5:00 AM UTC

Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #34

Kimble Bent lived in this securely hidden place of refuge, and at Paihau village, nearby, from the end of 1869 until about 1876. He was now a Maori in all his ways, he planted food-crops and harveste…

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len.george
@len.george Jul 2, 2019, 7:11 AM UTC

Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #33

The Hauhau war-chief's mana-tapu [Glory] was gone, and there was nothing for it but to fly to the depths of the wilderness. He and his men gathered in a few days at Rimatoto but made a very short sta…

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@len.george Jul 1, 2019, 10:03 AM UTC

Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #32

The Wanganui Kupapas were fully as savage as any wild rebel. No quarter was given to any Hauhau warrior, and no Hauhau thought of asking for any mercy. Of one frightful scene, Porter was an eye-witne…

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