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Early South Island Explorers - Had swags of sovereigns
GoldPandemic  
Posted : Wednesday, 6 January 2016 10:33:18 PM(UTC)
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Buying the West Coast.
This was a task of great difficulty, not so far as the Maoris were concerned, but because of the enormously rough territory to be traversed searching out all the Maoris of the Coast, right down to the remote Mahitahi (near Bruce Bay). He and a companion, Mackley, set out from Nelson and visited every little settlement where a signature was to be obtained to the document of purchase. Mackay carried 400 sovereigns in his swag, and when he had concluded his negotiations he had 100 surplus sovereigns to carry back to Nelson.

This is a paragraph from some of the early South Island explorers.
Reckon they or the Maori probably dropped a few here and there.
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Posted : Thursday, 7 January 2016 10:27:39 AM(UTC)
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Would make sense to have a map of the explorations, though archaeologists have probably already been there.
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