Station Life in New Zealand
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1. Front matter2. Preface.3. Letter I: Two months at sea—Melbourne.4. Letter II: Sight-seeing in Melbourne.5. Letter III: On to New Zealand.6. Letter IV: First introduction to "Station life."7. Letter V: A pastoral letter.8. Letter VI: Society.—houses and servants.9. Letter VII: A young colonist.—the town and its neighbourhood.10. Letter VIII: Pleasant days at Ilam.11. Letter IX: Death in our new home—New Zealand children.12. Letter X: Our station home.13. Letter XI: Housekeeping, and other matters.14. Letter XII: My first expedition.15. Letter XIII: Bachelor hospitality.—a gale on shore.16. Letter XIV: A Christmas picnic, and other doings.17. Letter XV: Everyday station life.18. Letter XVI: A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge.19. Letter XVII: My first and last experience of "camping out."20. Letter XVIII: A journey "down south."21. Letter XIX: A Christening gathering.—the fate of Dick.22. Letter XX: the New Zealand snowstorm of 1867.23. Letter XXI: Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai Bush.24. Letter XXII: The exceeding joy of "burning."25. Letter XXIII: Concerning a great flood.26. Letter XXIV: My only fall from horseback.27. Letter XXV: How We lost our horses and had to walk home.