Thread: Dustoff for Willie Peters

Originally Posted by Gapped axe

Great read Scribe well researched and written. The history on the different Maori wars was bloody interesting excuse the pun. Things were looking up ha ha. Mucko send me your address details and I will send it along.

Thanks for the compliments G A. I am really glad you enjoyed the book. It was such an interesting book to write. I spent many hours gazing at this land of ours from our yacht trying to see it through the eyes of an 18 year old American Whaler/Sealer and describe it. It is some land dont you agree???. To have looked at it through a sailors eyes has given it a whole new dimension for me. I hope the members of this forum get a chance to sail our coasts and try to imagine what it was like to make landfall in such an interesting place shortly after Cook. Until this period of my life I was always up somewhere high looking down on the country.

The battles you mention...I became so involved as I wrote about them that at the end of the day my 'patu' arm was quite worn out.
I think it used to be called RSI???.

Now the expression Gapped Axe you dont hear anymore except amoung cullers and old Bushmen are you one of them GA????.