Five years in New Zealand (1859 to 1864)

A first-person emigration memoir describes a voyage to and five years living in New Zealand, mixing vivid shipboard episodes with arrival at coastal settlements and repeated moves into the interior. The narrative details acquiring and working sheep runs, shepherding practices, mustering and shearing, and practical land-improvement methods alongside work as a surveyor, bush contractor and stockman. Accounts of pig and boar hunting, life on goldfields, road-making, exploration of mountain and lake country, severe winter hardships, accidents and companion deaths convey the daily labor, risks and landscape challenges of colonial frontier life, ending with a decision to depart for India.