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Are you interested in reading about New Zealand in the 19th Century?  These two websites give you access to digitized books from that time.

Early New Zealand Books
This website aims to provide the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century.  Illustrations and maps in the books have also been digitised, with a higher resolution version available by clicking on the image in the text.  

Accounts of early travellers have been a prime source of information about traditional Maori society and culture. There is also great interest in accounts of the earliest British settlements. The ability to search this body of literature for words and names will be of benefit to both scholars and genealogists.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials.  Offers an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals.