A Letter in French[permanent dead link] Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, Archives New Zealand, Reference: CAAR 19936 CH287/CP 139 ICPS 1902/1873 Shearman, Police to Provincial Secretary – inquiry being made for whereabouts of Barnet Burns, interpreter. Filed with 1847 (Colonial Secretary), 1847.1 to 1847.3–17 November 1873.
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A Brief Narrative of a New Zealand Chief: Being the Remarkable History of Barnet Burns, an English sailor, with a faithful account of the way in which he became a chief of one of the tribes of New Zealand, together with a few remarks on the manners and customs of the people, and other interesting matter. Written by Himself, Belfast edition, 1844. Transcript from Hocken Library copy taken in 1970.
Polack, J. S. Vol. II, Polack, Joel Samuel, New Zealand: Being a narrative of travels and adventures during a residence in that country between the years 1831 and 1837, Vol II, London, 1838, p. 121.
Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. The London Street-folk, comprising street sellers, street buyers, street finders, street performers, street artizans, street labourers. With numerous illustrations from photographs. Volume III, London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, Stationers' Hall Court, 1861, p. 90.
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"Burns, Barnet", Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume 1, 1990. Te Ara. Retrieved 25 January 2009.