tailieunhanh - STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

These letters, their writer is aware, justly incur the reproach of egotism and triviality; at the same time she did not see how this was to be avoided, without lessening their value as the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization. They are published as no guide or handbook for "the intending emigrant;" that person has already a literature to himself, and will scarcely find here so much as a single statistic. They simply record the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand. | STATION LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND By Lady Barker. 1883 Contents Preface. Letter I. Two months at sea Melbourne Letter II. Sight-seeing in Melbourne Letter III. On to New Zealand Letter IV. First introduction to Station life Letter V. A pastoral letter Letter VI. Society houses and servants Letter VII. A young colonist the town and its neighbourhood Letter VIII. Pleasant days at Ilam Letter IX. Death in our new home New Zealand children Letter X. Our station home Letter XI. Housekeeping and other matters Letter XII. My first expedition Letter XIII. Bachelor hospitality a gale on shore Letter XIV. A Christmas picnic and other doings Letter XV. Everyday station life Letter XVI. A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge Letter XVII. My first and last experience of camping out Letter XVIII. A journey down south Letter XIX. A Christening gathering the fate of Dick Letter XX. the New Zealand snowstorm of 1867 Letter XXI. Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai Bush Letter XXII. The exceeding joy of burning Letter XXIII. Concerning a great flood Letter XXIV. My only fall from horseback Letter XXV. How We lost our horses and had to walk home Preface. These letters their writer is aware justly incur the reproach of egotism and triviality at the same time she did not see how this was to be avoided without lessening their value as the exact account of a lady s experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization. They are published as no guide or handbook for the intending emigrant that person has already a literature to himself and will scarcely find here so much as a single statistic. They simply record the expeditions adventures and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer and as each was written while the novelty and excitement of the scenes it describes were fresh upon her they may succeed in giving here in England an adequate impression of the delight and freedom of an existence so far removed from our own highly-wrought civilization