The Turanga journals, 1840-1850 : letters and journals of William and Jane Williams, missionaries to Poverty Bay / edited by Frances Porter

Frontmatter Preface (page 9) Illustrations (page 14) The families (page 15) PREPARATION 1 William and Jane (page 19) 2 The nature of the pre‐1840 Christian conversion (page 40) 3 Pre‐1840 C.M.S. visits to the East Coast (page 54) THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS 4 1840 Letters and Journals (page 71) 5 1841 Letters and Journals (page 158) 6 1842 Letters and Journals (page 195) 7 1843 Letters and Journals (page 247) 8 1844 Letters and Journals (page 270) 9 1845 Letters and Journals (page 320) 10 1846 Letters and Journals (page 370) 11 1847 Letters and Journals (page 414) 12 1848 Letters and Journals (page 472) 13 1849 Letters and Journals (page 518) 14 1850 Letters and Journals (page 556) AFTERMATH 15 Return to Turanga (page 581) 16 War (page 591) 17 Retreat to Napier (page 599) Sources Used (page 615) Index (page 627) "In January 1840 William and Jane Williams landed at Turanga (PovertyBay) to begin the first East Coast mission station."--Jacket. This book coversthe first ten years of the mission and is their account of life in the busy and complicated Maori-missionary-Government-settler scene of the whole colony. Includes land buying in 1840s, and Bishop Selwyn