jan 1, 1840 - Thiercelin describes Onuku as having 30 huts - 2 Englishmen living in kainga

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In January 1840, a doctor on a French whaling ship, Louis Thiercelin, described Ōnuku as a Māori village perched on a fold of the hillside, with about 30 huts of varying sizes and styles of construction unevenly distributed up the slope. There was a larger hut, of the local chief, closer to the beach, and across the stream from it a “little cabin” in which two unidentified Englishmen were living. There were small cultivated fields around the huts. The population was living on potatoes, fish and fern-root

Source: https://www.ccc.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Consultation/2017/October/Takapuneke-Conservation-Report-FINAL-Dec-2012.PDF

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