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THE MARY IRA.
BEING
THE NARRATIVE JOURNAL OF A YACHTING
EXPEDITION FROM AUCKLAND TO THE
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS,
AND
A PEDESTRIAN TOUR IN A NEW DISTRICT OF NEW ZEALAND BUSH.
Illustrated with Sketches taken on the spot.
BY
J. K. M.
LONDON:
T. CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER,
30, WELBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.
1867.
[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.]
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[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS.
I. The Ship and her Crew............... 3
II. Up the Coast .................. 27
III. Waikari..................... 45
IV. Norfolk Island.................. 73
V. The Hurricane.................. 98
VI. The Fair-weather Scene............... 123
VII. The Arrival .................. 136
VIII. The Taboo..................... 156
IX. The Korroraw .................. 173
X. Trepang .................... 192
XI. A Disgraceful Scene .............. 209
XII. An Incipient Meeting............... 223
XIII. All Alone..................... 231
XIV. "Mary" ..................... 215
XV. "Jasus" ..................... 261
XVI. Aneiteum..................... 273
XVII. Conclusion..................... 291
[PREFACE]
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PREFACE.
THE following pages place before you a true account of a little voyage in the South Pacific, with the exception of a few unimportant alterations in respect to place and time.
A narrative form has been adopted, in preference to that of a concise journal, and the monotonous recurrence of the first pronoun has been avoided.
The reader will find something about New Zealand and the South Sea Islands; something about emigrants, and the ways of colonial life; something about colonial politics; something about missionary work; and something which it is hoped may, at the same time, afford a little amusement,
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