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Every European who ventures into these fatal districts falls into the hands of the Maories, and a prisoner in the hands of the Maories is a lost man.
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It was used in New Zealand for example, against Maories who are the indigenous people there and I think also Great Britain as well as the United States.
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The few Maories that inhabit this settlement travel to the West Coast by way of this river.
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The sportsmen found whole coveys of the kiwi, which are scarce in districts frequented by the Maories; the native dogs drive them away to the shelter of these inaccessible forests.
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Having heard some unusual noise outside the Ware-Atoua, he went back into the hut and watched the Maories from behind the mat.
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European who ventures into these fatal districts falls into the hands of the Maories, and a prisoner in the hands of the Maories is
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The taboo has the same weight as a law; or rather, the code of the Maories, indisputable and undisputed, is comprised in the frequent applications of the taboo.
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General Cameron had three thousand volunteers at his disposal, and they gave no quarter to the Maories after the barbarous murder of
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If by ill luck the Maories, more cunning than the fugitives, had only pretended to retreat; if they were not really duped by the volcanic phenomenon, this was the spot where their presence would be betrayed.
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In 1863, after a long and sanguinary struggle, the Maories were entrenched in strong and fortified position on the Upper Waikato, at the end of a chain of steep hills, and covered by three miles of forts.
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