Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia

by Crawford, James Coutts

• ISBN13: 9781108039390
• ISBN10: 1108039391
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Having decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford (1817-89) landed at Sydney in 1838 and lost no time in buying and driving a herd of cattle from Braidwood, New South Wales, to Adelaide, a distance of more than three hundred miles of unfamiliar territory. This remarkable journey proved typical of the rest of his travels, during which he served variously as explorer, translator, and sheriff of Wellington. This book, which includes illustrations and maps, is his own record of his experiences, first published in 1880. Even at that time, New Zealand and Australia had changed radically since Crawford's first arrival in the earliest, minimal colonies; today, his account offers not only a fascinating insight into the difficulties and dangers of life there, but a useful source for students and researchers in history and geology.

Table of Contents

Preface

Overland journey from Sydney to Adelaide in the years 1838âÇô9

First arrival in New Zealand

To Queen Charlotte's Sound

Across the Straits and back

First settlement at Wellington

A voyage to Sydney

A ride from Wellington to the Manawatu

A voyage to England

Return to New Zealand in 1846

A walk to the Wairarapa

A trip to Taranaki

Journey to the Whanganui

On the Whanganui River

On the Whanganui River continued

To Lake Taupo and back

Topini

Return to Whanganui

Up the Manawatu River

A journey from the Upper Hutt to Waikanae

Excursion from Whanganui to the Waitotara district

Journey to explore the main range of Tararua

Journey to the northern peninsula of the Auckland province

Up the Waikato and Waipa

A visit to Lake Coleridge

Two nights at Motunau

A visit to the Hurunui Lakes

Journey from Christchurch to Dunedin

From Dunedin to Lake Wakatipu and Invercargill

Invercargill and thence to Dunedin

Excursion to Tuapeka with Dr Hector

Havelock and the Pelorus Sound

A journey from New Zealand to Tasmania and Australia

New Zealand politics

The Maori language, its orthography compared

A chapter on geology

On the origin, character, and religion of the Maori race

New Zealand considered physically and agriculturally

Voyage from New Zealand to England via America

The conquests of Great Britain and the British race

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