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Updated: May 27, 2025
I am pretty sure they are run-away sailors, they seem so footsore. Good-bye! don't expect me until you see me!" Now I was a very new chum in those days, and had just heard of the Maungatapu murders. These guests of mine looked most disreputable, and were all powerful young men.
We soon reached the town of Nelson, and spent the most of the day there, visiting acquaintances and driving with them about the garden the whole region is a garden, excepting the scene of the "Maungatapu Murders," of thirty years ago. That is a wild place wild and lonely; an ideal place for a murder. It is at the base of a vast, rugged, densely timbered mountain.
We soon reached the town of Nelson, and spent the most of the day there, visiting acquaintances and driving with them about the garden the whole region is a garden, excepting the scene of the "Maungatapu Murders," of thirty years ago. That is a wild place wild and lonely; an ideal place for a murder. It is at the base of a vast, rugged, densely timbered mountain.
Even before the famous Maungatapu murders in 1866, swaggers were looked upon with distrust on the West Coast, and after that date hardly any one travelled in those parts without carrying a small revolver in his breast-pocket.
It was therefore no mystery that four unarmed diggers, carrying a considerable number of ounces of gold-dust with them, were going to start from the Canvas-town diggings for Nelson on a certain day, and the men I have mentioned set out to meet them. One part of their long journey led them over the Maungatapu range by a saddle, which in its lowest part is 2,700 feet above the sea-level.
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