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MAORI FOLKLORE or THE ANCIENT TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS23 Maori and Polynesian Myths and Legends. E-book. Formato PDF Sir George Grey - Abela Publishing, 2017 -
Herein you will find 23 Maori Myths and Legends collated and translated by Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand from November 1845 – January 1854 and again from December 1861 – February 1868. You will find legends and stories like The Children Of Heaven And Earth, The Legend Of Maui, The Legend Of Tawhaki, Rupe's Ascent Into Heaven, Kae's Theft Of The Whale and many, many other Polynesian myths. TOWARDS the close of 1845 Sir George Grey, while Governor of South Australia, was unexpectedly requested to administer the affairs of New Zealand. On arrival he found the Maori tribes engaged in hostilities with the Queen's (Victoria) troops, against whom they had contended with considerable success. He quickly realised he could neither successfully govern, nor hope to conciliate, with a people whose language, manners, customs and religion he was quite unacquainted. He decided that he should be acquainted with the language of the New Zealanders in order to redress their grievances. With no published Maori dictionary, nor books to study its construction, he found this to be a most difficult task. To his surprise he found that the Maori chiefs, in their speeches or in their letters, frequently quoted fragments of ancient poems or proverbs, or made allusions which rested on an ancient system of mythology. This gave him further impetus to learn the language of the country. For more than eight years he devoted a great part of his available time to collecting these ancient myths, poems and legends, working in his spare moments in every part of the country. Once, when he had amassed a large amount of materials to aid him in his studies, the Government House was destroyed by fire, and with it were burnt the materials he had so painstakingly collected, and thus he was left to recommence his difficult task. The ultimate result, however, was the collection of a large mass of materials. He felt unwilling that the result of his labours should be lost to those whose duty it may be thereafter to deal with the natives of New Zealand; and he undertook to published his extensive collection of ancient traditional poems, religious chants and songs of the Maori race. It is in this volume that Sir George Grey first presented “to the European reader” in 1854 the first written record and translation of the principal portions of ancient Maori mythology and of some of their most interesting legends.
JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD - The Classic African Children's Story. E-book. Formato PDF Sir Percy Fitzpatrick - Abela Publishing, 2019 -
Jock Of The Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir James Percy FitzPatrick.[1] The book tells of FitzPatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross, during the 1880s, when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider in the Bushveld region of the Transvaal (then the South African Republic). Jock’s mother, Jess, was the only dog in their camp. FitzPatrick describes her as “an unattractive bull-terrier with a dull brindled coat–black and grey in shadowy stripes. She had small cross-looking eyes and uncertain always-moving ears; she was bad tempered and most unsociable", but everybody respected her. Jock’s father is only described as an imported dog in the book and there’s an ongoing debate on whether he was an American Staffordshire Terrier or of a breed like the Bull and Terrier. What followed were a string of amazing adventures across South Africa's highveld from the Lydenburg Goldfields to Delagoa Bay (Maputo) in which Jock had many adventures earned a reputation second to none. Jock permanently lost his hearing in one of these adventures when a kudu antelope cow kicked him. The main version of how Jock died is told as follows: When Fitzpatrick went to live in Barberton, he realised Jock was miserable living in a town and gave the dog to his friend Tom Barnett, who ran a supply store in what has since become Mozambique. NOTE. This was the route (Pretoria to Delagoa Bay) which Winston Churchill used to escape from the Boers in 1900. One night when Tom Barnett called him, he mistakenly shot Jock, because he was thought to be the dog killing chickens on his farm. He later discovered that Jock had meanwhile already killed the other intruding dog and was simply responding to his call. NOTE: The exact location of Jock´s grave is unfortunately not officially marked or known. However, in 1947 Fitzpatrick´s daughter Cecily Niven, backtracked her father´s travels according to the descriptions in "Jock of the Bushveld" and wrote about her findings in her book "Jock & Fitz" published 1968. ============== Sir James Percy FitzPatrick, KCMG, known as Percy FitzPatrick, was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He authored the classic children's book, Jock Of The Bushveld. As a politician, he defended British Imperial interests before and during the Anglo-Boer War. ============== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Jock of the bushveld, bushveld, South Africa, Mozambique, highveld, eastern Transvaal, Maputo, Delagoa Bay, dog, wagons, lion, leopard, buffalo, wildebeest, buck, deer, springbok, duiker, dyker, , accident, angry, animals, ant-heap, Baas, baboon, bank, Barberton, Berg, blood, boss, Boy, buck, buffalo, bull, Bush, camp, cattle, country, cover, crocodile, Crocodile, danger, dense, disappear, dog, drivers, dry, duiker, dust, ear, earth, eight, evening, fire, fly, fowls, gentle, giraffe, goldfields, grass, gun, hidden, horns, horses, human, hunting, impala, instinct, Jantje, Jess, Jim, Jim, Jock, jump, kaffir, koodoo, kraal, Kudu, laughter, leaves, long, lost, Lydenburg, mad, master, miles, months, mountain, natives, Negro, Nguni, noise, occasion, outspan, oxen, pass, peace, people, Pezulu, pilgrims rest, pot, puppies, question, rabies, rifle, river, rock, rocks, Rocky, rose, run, Sam, scatter, Seedling, shake, Shangaan, shoot, shout, six, snake, Snowball, spoor, stones, stories, stream, strike, surprise, swung, tail, Ted, teeth, thorns, tiger, Tom, trail, trail, troop, Tsetse, turn, Up Above, usual, white, wild, wildebeest, wind, wounded, wrong, yellow, young, Zulu