Referenced In

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"The Maori of New Zealand committed massacres regularly."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Moa of New Zealand, ii. 417n, 418n"

"Stairs thought that it resembled New Zealand, and said that he would not mind possessing a ranche here. He actually went so far as to locate it, and pointed out the most desirable spot. 'On that little hill I would build my house'—'Shebang' he called it. I wonder if that is a New Zealand term for a villa—"