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Perhaps anxious to avoid concluding on such a grim and depressing note, Puckey instead ends by discussing the modern-day settlement of the Muriwhenua Treaty claims, B a process that has dragged out over more than two decades. The modest re-capitalisation B of far northern iwi is unlikely on its own to prove sufficient to reverse the socio-economic fortunes of Māori in the area. But understanding the origins of a problem can often prove crucial in overcoming it, and in this respect Puckey’s book should be required reading B for all those interested in the future fate of the Far North. B

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Behold the Moon: The European Occupation of the District 1770–1848 (revised edition). By Peter Entwisle. Port Daniel Press with the assistance of the Alfred and Isabel Reed Trust administered by the Otago Settlers’ Association, Dunedin, 2010. 300pp. B B Paperback: NZ price $49. ISBN: 978-0-473-17534-4.

DERIVING ITS IMAGINATIVE NAME from a Māori chant transcribed by David Samwell at Queen Charlotte Sound during Cook’s third voyage there in 1777, this book is the B revised version of Peter Entwisle’s 1998 one of the same name. Both books have as their B initial frame of reference a brief contextual description of the wider socio-political and B cultural worlds of Europeans in the time leading up to the arrival of sealers, whalers, B traders and eventually missionaries in the of . Supporting B his thesis that the beginnings of the European occupation of the Dunedin district were B inextricably linked with the early arrival of small parties of such people in coastal Otago B and Southland, Entwisle describes their interaction and assimilation into small, dispersed B Māori communities that became nuclei for exchange. He also describes the separate B formation of European shore whaling establishments, for example, to which Māori B became attracted for work and to trade. Some Europeans formed affinal relationships with the locals, became more settled, cultivated gardens, kept stock, and some became Pākeha–Māori who ‘facilitated interchanges not always of a mutually beneficial sort’ (p.63). This book is a story about place, resources, the formation of relationships and sometimes about violence and its causes. It is also about hopes and the survival of people from two different worlds, living together in communities. Entwisle shows how prior to the arrival at of New Zealand Company surveyors and immigrants, and before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, small, independent land settlement schemes were initiated by entrepreneurial whalers and traders such as John Jones, who encouraged missionary Watkin to settle in the vicinity. Thus, the early formation and population of Dunedin did not happen in isolation from the existing villages, whaling and former sealing communities where the socio-cultural and agricultural groundwork to ‘sustain the Wakefield settlers in their first months of need’, had already been done and ‘was effectively achieved by the mid-1830s’ (p.163). The revised edition of Behold the Moon achieves the stated aim of its author in elaborating on and clarifying some descriptions of these events and people who were mentioned in the first edition, but in less depth. This has been attained by further research, and access to an increased number of archival sources. Some errors of fact that became apparent from the earlier research are of course omitted, and conversely some new facts have come to hand and been used to balance the narrative regarding the planning, surveying and population growth in the greater Dunedin area during the 1840s. However, the main intention of the revision appears to be the incorporation of

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people and scholars alike will find Peter Entwisle’s work in both editions of of editions both in work Entwisle’s Peter find will alike scholars and people Behold the the Behold

local local genealogists, so ancestors, our are people those of Some described. being people

can always cast a new light upon the lives of the the of lives the upon light new a cast always can material archival of rpretation inte the to

have been re-addressed over and over again, but more recent socio-political approaches approaches socio-political recent more but again, over and over re-addressed been have

them informed that documents the and earches res s cNab’ M century. last of beginning the

many authors since it was first documented thoroughly by McNab (1907, 1909, 1913) at at 1913) 1909, (1907, McNab by thoroughly documented first was it since authors many

is a book which revisits a field of enquiry that has been kept alive by by alive kept been has that enquiry of field a revisits which book a is Beyond the Moon the Beyond

be an academic argument only. argument academic an be

and serves the purpose at times of ‘adding flesh to the bones’ of what might otherwise otherwise might what of bones’ the to flesh ‘adding of times at purpose the serves and

readers some for provoking thought is suggestion by facts of connection such hand, other

On the the On speculation. excessive by to added not is evidence the that therefore important is

after the events being referred to. It It to. referred being events the after years 27 least at Waikouaiti in arrival s Creed’ after

correct (p.56). But it is one small manuscript that was transcribed from oral narration narration oral from transcribed was that manuscript small one is it But (p.56). correct

h he h c whi utu, of r atte m ongoing an s a dent i nc i a Sophi he t ems ems se rt’, shi he t of war he ‘t s all c

f f o nterpretation i ifferent d a s nable e so l a ript sc anu m reed C he t hat t rgument a s e’ wisl Ent

MS p.13 MS transcribed in Appendix V1 p.195). p.195). V1 Appendix in transcribed

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built home’. Original Original home’. built child no woman native with ‘lived note ginal mar a (with …’ town

— sheep and goats — afterds went to Hobart to went afterds — goats and sheep — Wariakiaki at years 2 ‘lived concerned

since the actual Creed manuscript says, in respect of this issue, only that the person person the that only issue, this of respect in says, manuscript Creed actual the since

This kind of interpretation appears to go much further than the evidence would allow would evidence the than further much go to appears interpretation of kind This , ,

he had another line of business . . . (p.65, my emphasis). my (p.65, . . . business of line another had he provisions. It seems It

s s ship’ future for . . . breedstock as intended also were… livestock the . . . Grono John perhaps

of vessels and to assemble cargoes of commodities such as flax and sealskins. sealskins. and flax as such commodities of cargoes assemble to and vessels of was was principal his If

as the agent of some owner or operator to assist the provisioning provisioning the assist to operator or owner some of agent the as here was he that clear seems [I]t

point:

evidence. Thus Entwisle says at one one at says Entwisle Thus evidence. ‘thin’ quite upon based -interpretations over and

are too many inferences inferences many too are there that is it work, the of aspect interpretive the of icism crit a

to hand; so this book, like all good scholarship, is clearly a ‘work in progress’. If there is is there If progress’. in ‘work a clearly is scholarship, good all like book, this so hand; to

interpretations in the light of better understandings coming coming understandings better of light the in interpretations his reviews constantly and

the first edition. The author compares his own views with those of others in the field, field, the in others of those with views own his compares author The edition. first the

and people to life in the same manner as as manner same the in life to people and events these bring to pting attem of aim clear

are very long, with all thinking carefully detailed. The book nevertheless retains his his retains nevertheless book The detailed. carefully thinking all with long, very are

es es ndnot e and s ce ppendi a the nd a tail de to on i tent t a in ous ul etic m is ing t wri s ’ uthor a he T

has reached, and also for personal research and reference. reference. and research personal for also and reached, has

Creed manuscript. All of these are most useful for evaluating the conclusions the author author the conclusions the evaluating for useful most are these of All manuscript. Creed

transcripts transcripts addition, in include, that (107pp.) appendices 16 of ships’ journals and of the the of and journals ships’ of

The revised edition adds to this by having having by this to adds edition revised The data. population and material biographical

including including information, supporting of (46pp.) appendices reports of court proceedings, proceedings, court of reports

contains a large number of footnotes and nine nine and footnotes of number large a contains of edition first The Behold the Moon the Behold

war with sealers that began during the visit of another sealing gang. gang. sealing another of visit the during began that sealers with war

origins and more in the nature of an on-going on-going an of nature the in more and origins ferent dif having as affray this sees he light

was that Māori came to attack the sealers. But now that this new manuscript has come to to come has manuscript new this that now But sealers. the attack to came Māori that was

author had previously used the Sophia affray and and affray Sophia the used previously had author s role in it to explain how it it how explain to it in role s Tucker’

figure in the Creed manuscript and in the archival accounts of the Sophia incident. The The incident. Sophia the of accounts archival the in and manuscript Creed the in figure

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in which three sealers were killed. killed. were sealers three which in career career checkered whose One, described in in described been has

(Otago (Otago Daniel Port of environs trade trade to harbour) altercation altercation an was There potatoes. for

that occurred in November 1817 when Captain John Kelly visited the the visited Kelly John Captain when 1817 November in occurred that Affray’ ‘Sophia

raised by the ‘Creed manuscript’ (p.6). Both editions of the book focus on the the on focus book the of editions Both (p.6). manuscript’ ‘Creed the by raised matters

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direct on the claims of Pākehā culture alongside Māori, but it is a personal reflection, not not reflection, personal a is it but Māori, alongside culture Pākehā of claims the on direct

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. By Michael King, with an introduction by by introduction an with King, Michael By . Writings Selected — Beyond Silence The

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