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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A 12mm tear to cloth at head of spine. 12mm tear at tail of spine. Some foxing to text pages. Folding map at rear has some foxing and a 12mm tear to margin.; x, [2], 368 pages + frontispiece + 19 plates + 1 folding map. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 203mm x 135mm. Contents: Melbourne to Dunedin; Things in General; Dunedin; Christchurch and Wellington; A Coursing Match; The Wairarapa to Auckland, via Napier; Auckland; Auckland Province; A Picnic at Hunua; Waiwera; Ohinemutu; Rotomahana; Ohinemutu to Taupo; Taupo to Napier; Auckland to Lyttelton, via Nelson; Lyttelton to Invercargill; Lake Wakatipu; The West Coast Road; Wellington to Whanganui; The Whanganui and the King Country; The Whanganui and the King Country (continued)l Taranaki; Labour; Sport; The Native Race; Social; Appendix: I. Eruption of Tarawera; II. Rotomahana Revisited; III. Statistics of the Colony. "Early in 1883 I left Melbourne for the 'promised land' of New Zealand." - page 1. "Why, this is just like England!" remarked one of our passengers, in a half-disappointed tone. "Only better," growled out an old colonist. "Why, what the nation did you expect to see here?" continued he; "ten thousand naked savages in battle array on the beach, probablty, jabbering Choctaw or some Polynesian dialect, eh? You've come to the wrong place, you have! Skipper, take this man up to Auckland, and ship him off to the Society Islands - that's where he wants to go! We're civilized here." - page 3. [Reference: Bagnall 4501: "he spent much time travelling in the King Country, the Volcanic Plateau and the South Island which journeys are herein described with chapters on the Maoris, labour etc."]; 8vo.…