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KAIPARA.
Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
Kaipara.
KAIPARA
OR
EXPERIENCES OF A SETTLER IN
NORTH NEW ZEALAND
Written and Illustrated
BY
P. W. BARLOW
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
LIMITED
St. Dunstan's House
Fetter lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
1889
Inscribed
TO
W.H. BARLOW, Esq., F.R.S.,
OF HIGH COMBE, OLD CHARLTON,
AS A TOKEN OF
DEEP RESPECT, GRATITUDE, AND AFFECTION.
BY HIS NEPHEW,
THE NARRATOR.
PREFACE.
The fact that nothing has hitherto been publishedconcerning life in this part of NewZealand from the pen of a bona-fide settler hasinduced me to write the following pages.
Before commencing the undertaking, I hadbeen at considerable pains to satisfy myself ofthe truth of this fact, and naturally so, for it isthe life-buoy I cling to as I take this, my firstdip, in the sea of literature; it is my one excusefor troubling the public, and in it consists myhope that they will consent to be troubled.
I do not pretend to literary talent, and myhighest ambition is to lay the true narrativeof my experiences in New Zealand before thepublic in a readable form. If successful indoing this, I shall be content, and trust thatmy readers will be also.
Many books have been written describingcolonial life in this and other parts, in some of[x]which the writers have identified themselveswith the characters in their stories; but thesehave invariably been the works of visitors to thecolony, not settlers in it.
There is to my mind as much differencebetween the two experiences as there is betweenthe experience of a volunteer and that ofa soldier of the line, and it is on this accountthat I approach the public with some smalldegree of confidence, and venture to lay beforemy readers the experiences of a settler in NorthNew