Nga Huia, eldest daughter of
4" tabindex="44" contenteditable="false"> Pomare, a chief of great prestige in the contenteditable="false"> is Bay of Islands in the Early Days. "> Into the primitive atmosphere of that ="P41_TL00007"> primitive district came an Englishman with "NEW102" tabindex="102" contenteditable="false"> Nga Huia fell madly in love. For " contenteditable="false"> ! a time she knew what idyllic happiness bindex="133" contenteditable="false"> (meant. ;Then her lover’s military company lse"> ! was ordered to Wanganui, 500 miles to the id="NEW164" tabindex="164" contenteditable="false"> ntenteditable="false"> [ Nga Huia, left behind, did not languish bindex="182" contenteditable="false"> lovesick loneliness. She made up her 41_TL00015"> [mind to follow on horseback. In those n id="NEW208" tabindex="208" contenteditable="false"> days this was no light undertaking, for the span> journey was through bush and over “hills an id="P41_ST00120" tabindex="239" contenteditable="false"> [so precipitous that walking gave way to 0127" tabindex="253" contenteditable="false"> all-fours.” ex="254" contenteditable="false"> There were no roads and the route lay " tabindex="271" contenteditable="false"> through dense forests, deep swamps and fiercely-running rivers, many of which had abindex="294" contenteditable="false"> to be crossed and re-crossed over and over 41_ST00156" tabindex="311" contenteditable="false"> again. Trees, undergrowth and supplejacks 0025"> were so closely interwoven that a passage d="NEW334" tabindex="334" contenteditable="false"> through them was a task to daunt anyone. span id="P41_ST00176" tabindex="351" contenteditable="false"> enteditable="false"> Nga Huia refused to let obstacles such as bindex="370" contenteditable="false"> deter her. Travelling from the Bay of enteditable="false"> Islands to Auckland, thence through the pan id="NEW396" tabindex="396" contenteditable="false"> Waikato and the interior to Taupo, she tabindex="410" contenteditable="false"> eventually forced her way ; to Otaki. P41_TL00032"> Here her reception was one befitting the span id="NEW436" tabindex="436" contenteditable="false"> eldest daughter of a chief of Pomare’s EW450" tabindex="450" contenteditable="false"> Standing, and from this point a body of id="P41_ST00234" tabindex="467" contenteditable="false"> young chiefs accompanied her. At the head 41" tabindex="481" contenteditable="false"> pf a cavalcade of sixty she swept triumph pan> into Wanganui. "P41_TL00038"> [ But her reunion with her lover was e"> short-lived. At the end of two years he able="false"> left her to take possession in England of id="P41_TL00041"> a large inheritance of property. The ; of return which he gave to her " tabindex="578" contenteditable="false"> Was ; never kept, and Nga Huia, faithful to "P41_ST00298" tabindex="595" contenteditable="false"> the end as many others of her sisters have TL00045"> been, both white and colored, simply span id="NEW626" tabindex="626" contenteditable="false"> herself to death. .obj-566855565&partId=nla.obj-558174605#page/n40/mode/1up
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