The Baked Steers 49

Seeking Sheep in the Snow 81

The Gold Diggings 67

Peddlars at the Diggings 67

Mesopotamia Station 73

Upper Gorge of the Rangitata 75

Glent Hills Station 97




Introduction.


The islands of New Zealand, discovered by the Dutch navigator, Tasman,
in 1642, and surveyed and explored by Captain Cooke in 1769, remained
unnoticed until 1814, when the first Christian Missionaries landed, and
commenced the work of converting the inhabitants, who, up to that time
had been cannibals.

The Missionaries had been unusually successful, and prepared the way for
the first emigrants, who landed at Wellington in the North Island in
1839. A year later the Maori Chiefs signed a treaty acknowledging the