Shadow of the Boyd

by Diana Menefy

  vittles Slang for ‘victuals’, the supplies of food loaded for the ship’s journey.

  Wangaroa The old spelling of Whangaroa.

  whakaharahara Extraordinary, marvellous — but in the context I have used it, it can translate as beautiful.

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  I would like to acknowledge Wade Doak’s book The Burning of the Boyd both as an inspiration and a source of information. I used Wade’s book, McNab’s Historical Records of New Zealand, and Alexander Berry’s accounts of the events and the following journey of The City of Edinburgh as the main sources for the skeleton of this book. Often the words Berry speaks have come directly from his writings.

  I would also like to thank Russell Harris, past owner and skipper of the R Tucker Thompson, who read the text for sailing bloopers, and Taipari Munro, for checking that my Te Reo and Tikanga was correct. My thanks also go to Janine McVeagh, Lesley Marshall, and my daughter Nyrene Mills who have read and critiqued various drafts.

  The verse in the initiation ceremony is from ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published in 1798.

  Copyright

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  First published in 2010

  This edition published in 2010

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  Copyright © Diana Menefy 2010

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  Shadow of the Boyd / Diana Menefy.

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  1. Boyd (Ship) -- Juvenile fiction. 2. Maori (New Zealand people) –

  First contact with Europeans -- Juvenile fiction.

  3. New Zealand –History –To 1840 –Juvenile fiction.

  [1. Boyd (Ship) –Fiction. 2. Maori (New Zealand people) –

  First contact with Europeans –Fiction.

  3. Massacres — Fiction. 4. New Zealand –History –To 1840 –Fiction.]

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  Cover illustration: detail of The Burning of the Boyd, Whangaroa Harbour, 1809 by Walter Wright, used by permission of Auckland City Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; rope by Shutterstock.com

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