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HAND-BOOK FOR EMIGRANTS,
AND OTHERS
,
BEING A HISTORY OF
NEW ZEALAND,
ITS STATE AND PROSPECTS,
PREVIOUS AND SUBSEQUENT TO THE PROCLAMATION OF HER MAJESTY'S AUTHORITY;
ALSO
REMARKS ON THE CLIMATE AND COLONIES OF THE
AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT.
BY
JOHN BRIGHT , M.R.C.S.
RESIDENT FOR FOUR YEARS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
"Haud ignara mali misecis succurrere disco."
LONDON:
HENRY HOOPER, 13, PALL MALL EAST.
1841.
[Digitised and made available online by Auckland Libraries and the University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.]
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Terrestrial paradises are not for embodied souls; from the attributed defects of this world spring attractions to its Ruler; therefore would I have you to weigh well every consideration.
PALMER and CLAYTON, 30, Crane Court, Fleet Street.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. The Country.............................. 1
CHAPTER II. The Climate and Soil.................... 21
CHAPTER III. Productions of the Soil. ................. 41
CHAPTER IV. Animals, etc.............................. 62
CHAPTER V. The Native................................ 76
CHAPTER VI. European Residents..................... 110
CHAPTER VII. Colonial Schemes........................ 145
CHAPTER VIII. Colonial Policy.......................... 179
CHAPTER IX. For the Emigrant....................... 199
ADDENDA................................ 210
