NICHOLAS'S VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND
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Miscellanies
NICHOLAS'S VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND.
Mr. John Liddiard Nicholas, whose name is known to our readers, has published, in 2 vols. 8vo. the "Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, performed in the Years 1814 and 1815, in company with the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain of New South Wales."
We recommend this work to all who wish to understand the character of the New Zealanders, and to enter fully into the difficulties and prospects of the attempts of the Church Missionary Society among that people. Mr. Nicholas has related the same train of incidents as form Mr. Marsden's Narrative, given in our Numbers for August, November, and December, 1816; but he has reported them in his own manner, and has interwoven many additional circumstances.
Under the head of Supplementary Observations, such topics are subjoined as could not be introduced or dilated on in the Narrative, without too long a suspension of the train of events. These Observations respect the extent, soil, appearance, climate, and productions of New Zealand; with the origin, number, and character of its inhabitants.
A Vocabulary of New-Zealand Words is added, which was compiled by Mr. Kendall, and has been printed. Many of the words are here compared by Mr. Nicholas, with corresponding words of the Tonga Language.
In an Appendix are given Extracts from Collins's New South
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Wales and Turnbull's Voyage, on some matters relative to New Zealand; and the Memoirs of Duaterra, which are contained in a Letter of Mr. Marsden to the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, dated October 28, 1815, and which is printed in the First Part of Appendix VIII. to the Seventeenth Report of the Society.
The volumes are illustrated by several Plates; and a Chart of the two Islands, reduced from that of Captain Cook, on which is marked the track of the Active on her first visit to New Zealand.
