19 Jan 2015

Rangatira - Part 1

From The Reading, 2:30 pm on 19 January 2015

Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu begins to recount the time he and a group of high-born North Island Maori spent in England. In a trip organised by Wesleyan Jenkins, 14 Rangatira set sail from Auckland in 1863, sharing cramped berths in a voyage of 100 nights.

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