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Haurongo
Biographies
Heke Pōkai, Hōne Wiremu
"I was born at Pākaraka, near the maunga Pouērua, inland from Pēwhairangi – what the Pākehā call the Bay of Islands. I was given the name Pōkai after my mother’s brother..."
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Henry Williams
"I was born in 1792, in Gosport, south England, near Britain’s main naval base at Portsmouth. My parents were Thomas Williams, a hosiery merchant, and Mary..."
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Rāwiri Taiwhanga
"I do not know when I was born in terms of the years since our Lord’s birth “A.D.”. When I died in the 1870s, however, some Pākehā thought I was 100 years old..."
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William Colenso
"I was born and raised in the town of Penzance, Cornwall, in the south-west corner of England. My father was a town councillor and earned his living making and..."
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