Jennings, William2013-02-062013-02-062011Jennings, W. (2011). Early French views of the Waikato and its inhabitants (1840-54). Journal of New Zealand Literature, 29(2), 14-36.0112-1227https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7146This paper will investigate how the cultural background of these Frenchmen informed their descriptions of Waikato Maori and the Waikato environment. It will use the newly-published ten-volume collected correspondence of the pioneer Marists in the Pacific,the Lettres refues d'Odanie, as its principal source.application/pdfen© The University of Waikato. Used with permissionJournal Article