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and recommended that Burns obtain the assistance of someone to help arrange the lectures. Despite Burns's shortcomings, the reporter stated that "those who go to a lecture to obtain information, without caring by what means it is conveyed, could, notwithstanding the rambling and unconnected nature of
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peninsula became a place of refuge for various Māori that felt threatened at an intensification of tribal warfare, decimation, enslavement and migration. Burns wrote: "So here I was amongst a set of cannibals ... not knowing the moment when they might take my trade from me, and not only my trade, but
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to deliver a course of lectures on New
Zealand. Three lectures were advertised, but at the close of the second Burns became ill and was confined to his bed for nearly eight weeks. Rosina Burns sold every available article she possessed but soon they were destitute and an appeal was made for help. By
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which sailed from London on 4 May 1839. His wife in France, Anne (née Boval) understood that in 1840 Barnet Burns had travelled as an interpreter for an
English expedition to New Zealand. Several English newspapers reported on a visit by Barnet Burns in about 1841. and it appears that he worked with
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Narrative of the Remarkable History of Barnet Burns, an English sailor; who has lately been exhibiting at the Surrey Zoological Gardens and other Places of Amusement. With a faithful account of the way in which he became a chief of one of the tribes of the New Zealanders: together with a few
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attacked, killed and ate the group with the exception of Barnet Burns. He managed to negotiate for his life by agreeing to live, fight and trade with them. Also, as part of the negotiations, Burns had to agree upon the party tattooing him. He was forced to have his full face, chest, thighs, and arms
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suggesting that Burns could lead a colonisation of New
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was unimpressed by one of Burns's lectures describing how the lecturer dressed "with sandals and strings of beads on his legs and wrists, a leopard-skin petticoat, a necklace of pig's tusks, and a crown of blue feathers a foot long, – sings NZ ditties to a tune!, and talks gibberish, which he
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A Cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. The London Street-folk, comprising street sellers, street buyers, street finders, street performers, street artizans, street labourers. With numerous illustrations from
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Zealand, Reference: CAAR 19936 CH287/CP 139 ICPS 1902/1873 Shearman, Police to Provincial Secretary – inquiry being made for whereabouts of Barnet Burns, interpreter. Filed with 1847 (Colonial Secretary), 1847.1 to 1847.3–17 November
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Remarkable History of Barnet Burns, an English sailor, with a faithful account of the way in which he became a chief of one of the tribes of New Zealand, together with a few remarks on the manners and customs of the people, and other interesting matter. Written by
566:. From 1832 to 1834 he sent about 107 tons of flax to Sydney and he considered these his happiest years in New Zealand. Burns claimed to have been made a chief of over 600. The remaining part of his face and parts of his body were tattooed at nearby Waihau (Loisels beach).
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stated that Barnet Burns was better known as Pahe-a-Range, the New
Zealand Chief, that he had suffered a long and painful illness and that he left behind a widow and two children to lament their loss. The identities of the children mentioned in the obituary are not known.
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January 1831 the Sydney merchant Joseph Barrow Montefiore had just returned from a voyage to New Zealand and required flax traders to be located at various parts of New Zealand. Barnet Burns agreed to return to New Zealand to trade with the Māori for New Zealand flax
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where he lectured before the Mechanics' Institution at Newhall Street and where he had a booklet published. By that time he and Rosina had married as the handbill states that "Mrs. Burns will also perform several admired Airs and Waltzes upon the Musical Glasses".
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as a sign of loyalty to the tribe. Even though Burns did not want to, he agreed to save his life. When about a quarter of the tattoo on his face was completed, Burns escaped and found his way back to his own tribe, who sought vengeance without success as the
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which suggests that he had recently sailed. Barnet Burns's son, Hori Waiti, claims to remember his father escaping. Given the short period that Burns initially spent in New Zealand, Hori Waiti would only remember his father if Burns had made a return trip.
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Mechanics' Institution, where his lectures were described as "one incongruous jumble of impudence, of ignorance, of low wit, and bare-faced presumption". This description was criticised by a reporter who attended lectures by Burns at the Town Hall of
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translates into romantic poetry." In December 1845 Barnet Burns lodged a complaint to the Police Magistrate at Worship-Street, London against Henry Sproules Edwards, who had disrupted one of Burns's lectures by publicly denouncing him as a fraud.
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January 1857 Barnet Burns had recovered sufficiently to be able to lecture accompanied, as usual, by Rosina on the musical glasses. Further funds were raised from an edition of Burns's booklet published at Leicester.
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at Kekeparaoa had been breached, many of the imprisoned occupants were shared between the victorious tribes. Burns says he witnessed about 60 of the prisoners being killed and eaten; the flesh being cooked in a
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and Burns had reacted by "leading about the decks by his nose, like a pig by the snout". Burns was ordered to "enter into his own recognizances to the amount of £10, to preserve the peace for twelve months".
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named Umukapua and Orakaiapu. Soon afterwards at the request of his Chief, Burns went to Maraetai with about seven hundred men to battle but their enemies had fled and they returned and lived again in peace.
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on 14 September 1828. Burns also worked with other prominent businessmen of colonial Sydney, who supported Burns's application for a land grant in May 1830. A plot of 10 acres (40,000 m) was granted at
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of a New Zealand Chief, his opponent in battle, and describe the operation of tattooing, &c." Burns was to be accompanied by Mrs Crowther who would "perform several favourite Airs upon
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in New Zealand in the 1830s. Burns returned to Europe in 1835 and spent most of his remaining years as a showman giving lectures, where he described the customs of the Māori, performed the
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who was to be sent like his father as a missionary to New Zealand. In 1853 W. L. Williams presented Burns's booklet and a picture of Burns to his son, Hori Waiti, in front of a crowd at
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Barnet Burns was protected by a chief whom he called "Awhawee" but whom Māori oral records know as "Te Aria" or "Aria". Burns married the chief's daughter, Amotawa and lived as a
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in Jamaica. When Lecesne travelled to England to petition parliament over his false arrest and exile, Burns travelled with him. Under the patronage of Lecesne, Burns went to the
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and as Burns roamed the streets of Sydney his facial tattoo aroused suspicion that he had submitted to the operation of tattooing in order to prevent being recognised.
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By 1847 Barnet Burns had a manager, Lionel Violet Gyngell who announced appearances by Barnet and Rosina Burns during a tour that included Hawkstone Hall, Shrewsbury,
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arrived at Sydney on 2 November 1834, Barnet Burns arranged to transfer his grant of land at Tambourine Bay to Captain John Thomas Chalmers. At that time thousands of
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returned to Sydney on 5 January 1831 and soon afterwards Burns appeared before the Police Magistrates where he was convicted of gross assault. A fellow seaman on the
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and seven other Māori and they headed north stopping overnight at Whareongaonga before landing at Waihi near Orongo beach on the southern side of Te Kuri a Paoa (
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by swimming across a river. She was captured and imprisoned. Resigned to being eaten, she assisted in preparing potatoes and threw herself onto the fire for a
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to take part in an English expedition to New Zealand in the capacity of interpreter. Following his departure, Burns's wife, Anne never heard from him again.
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which was probably at Whakawhitira. The chief Kakatarau agreed to their release in exchange for a ransom that was to be paid at Uawa. However the
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where he exhibited himself at a shop in rue de Gorges with an assurance that he would remain civilized for visitors. Burns was described as a
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Barnet Burns worked as a house servant for William Henry Mackenzie of the Bank of Australia. He commenced employment at about the time of the
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George Burns, later known as Barnet, was believed to have been born about 1807, but the exact location of his birth has yet to be determined.
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Barnet Burns commenced a career of showman and lecturer. His initial appearances in London included the Surrey Zoological Gardens (later the
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Barnet Burns soon published a booklet about his experiences in Australia and New Zealand. Copyright for the booklet was obtained at the
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and Burns was then engaged by the captain to continue as a flax trader at £3 a month. He agreed to establish himself further north at
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of New Zealand was a place constantly under the threat of attack from neighbouring Māori tribes. In the preceding decades the
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New Zealand: Being a narrative of travels and adventures during a residence in that country between the years 1831 and 1837
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and the Waikohu river. Burns claimed to have led 150 men in the siege which lasted about three weeks. He described how a
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were unfamiliar with the bay at Uawa and their waka capsized with the result that the ransom payment was waived. The
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Wigglesworth, Roger Philip, "The New Zealand timber and flax trade 1769–1840", PhD thesis, Massey University, 1981.
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was probably Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare which was part of Te Uranga Wera or the burnt post tribe, a collection of
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threatened to plunder the remaining trade goods. Burns escaped with Amotawa and her father in an open
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his address, gather sufficient to remunerate them for the money and time expended in attending it."
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of the British government accepting Burns's proposal. Later in April 1836, Burns entertained in the
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Hall at Ludgate Hill, London on 1 September 1835. Burns's publication had the lengthy title:
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Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of Making in New Zealand and the wider Moana Oceania
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The Old Vic Theatre, Waterloo, London. Burns lectured here in the mid-1830s
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and Portsea Theatre at the conclusion of a romance play.
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formerly the Plymouth Devonport and Stonehouse Cemetery.
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1684:, Monday 15 December 1845, p. 6.
1343:"The East Coast Tattooed Trader"
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1478:An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
1464:, Vol II, London, 1838, p. 121.
1324:An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
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