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The Old Identities; Being Sketches and Reminiscences During the First Decade of the Province of Otago, N.z.
The Old Identities Being Sketches and Reminiscences During the First Decade of the Province of Otago Nz Author:James Barr General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: Mills, Dick Subjects: Otago Region (N.Z.) Otago (N.Z.) Fiction / Classics History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, I... more »rish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. The Landing. . N uninhabited land ! Till the Otagans par excellence came here, all about the harbour, and the site of the future Dunedin, was literally such, with but few exceptions. There were, as there is still, a tribe of Natives at the Heads -- (how or when they wandered thus far South from their warmer habitat of the North, I don't know) -- a sprinkling of them, who dwelt all alone in their huts near the Taieri River, on the Plain; there were a few whalers south, and at Waikouaiti; also a store, which, anticipating the arrival of the immigrants, Mr. Jones, of that district, had erected. But with these exceptions, all was solitude; deep, unbroken. The shores of the beautiful Loch, fringed with a dense bush of totara, pines, and manuka, then presented, covering the rising ground that springs from the shores, a uniform mass of green; and was not, as it afterwards for a time became, less beautifully attractive by the small rough patches of clearing which were effected. The story of the landing and early adventures of the two pioneer parties of emigrants who arrived atPort Chalmers on the 22nd March and 15th April, 1848 -- who landed on the shores of a new and uninhabited country, with the untrodden ferns and the unbroken bush all around, with no accommodation provided, no immigrants' barracks, and no tent...« less