Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia

Preface; Overland journey from Sydney to Adelaide in the years 1838–9; First arrival in New Zealand; To Queen Charlotte's Sound; Across the Straits and back; First settlement at Wellington; A voyage to Sydney; A ride from Wellington to the Manawatu; A voyage to England; Return to New Zealand in 1846; A walk to the Wairarapa; A trip to Taranaki; Journey to the Whanganui; On the Whanganui River; On the Whanganui River continued; To Lake Taupo and back; Topini; Return to Whanganui; Up the Manawatu River; A journey from the Upper Hutt to Waikanae; Excursion from Whanganui to the Waitotara district; Journey to explore the main range of Tararua; Journey to the northern peninsula of the Auckland province; Up the Waikato and Waipa; A visit to Lake Coleridge; Two nights at Motunau; A visit to the Hurunui Lakes; Journey from Christchurch to Dunedin; From Dunedin to Lake Wakatipu and Invercargill; Invercargill and thence to Dunedin; Excursion to Tuapeka with Dr Hector; Havelock and the Pelorus Sound; A journey from New Zealand to Tasmania and Australia; New Zealand politics; The Maori language, its orthography compared; A chapter on geology; On the origin, character, and religion of the Maori race; New Zealand considered physically and agriculturally; Voyage from New Zealand to England via America; The conquests of Great Britain and the British race.