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Title: Five Years in New Zealand
1859 to 1864

Author: Robert B. Booth

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Language: English

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Five Years in New Zealand

(1859 to 1864.)

BY

ROBERT B. BOOTH, M.Inst.C.E.

LONDON:

J. G. HAMMOND & CO., LTD.

Fleet Lane, Old Bailey, E.C.

1912.

Contents.

PAGE

CHAPTER I.

How I came to Emigrate 1

CHAPTER II.

The Voyage--Rats on Board--The White Squall--Harpooning
a Shark--Burial of the Twins--Tropics--Icebergs--Exchange
of Courtesies in mid-Pacific 4

CHAPTER III.

Port Lyttelton and Christchurch--Call on Friends--Visit Malvern
Hill 14

CHAPTER IV.

A Period of Uncertainty--Leave for Nelson as Cadets on Sheep Run 19

CHAPTER V.

Working of a Sheep Run--Scab--C's Departure for Home 25

CHAPTER VI.

Shepherd's Life--Driving Sheep--Killing Wild Sow--Return
to Christchurch 30

CHAPTER VII.

I join a Survey Party--Travel to the Ashburton 36

CHAPTER VIII.

Wild Pig Hunting 41

CHAPTER IX.

Cattle Ranching and Stock Riding 46

CHAPTER X.

Take Employment with a Bush Contractor--Serious Illness--Start
for South and the Gold Diggings 51

CHAPTER XI.

Our Eventful Journey to the Gold Diggings 58

CHAPTER XII.

Life on the Gold Diggings 64

CHAPTER XIII.

Leave the Diggings--Attempt to Drive Wild Cattle thereto--Return
to Dunedin