The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . lilllmlMr:fiiiliiii:ii;iii],,;,ii[iiiiii[[iiii;iiiliiiliiiliiiii:iiiiiiiiiii. NEW ZEALAND; FIRST UIPKESSIOXS. 97 of such a journey may be familiar to some of my readers, and express the feeling whichhas been often expressed by other visitors less capable of describing them. Coming ashoreat The Bluff, the famous novelist found that he might as well have asked to see a moa—the great bird which, in former times, used to stalk about these islands (p. 9S)—asa Maori.
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . lilllmlMr:fiiiliiii:ii;iii],,;,ii[iiiiii[[iiii;iiiliiiliiiliiiii:iiiiiiiiiii. NEW ZEALAND; FIRST UIPKESSIOXS. 97 of such a journey may be familiar to some of my readers, and express the feeling whichhas been often expressed by other visitors less capable of describing them. Coming ashoreat The Bluff, the famous novelist found that he might as well have asked to see a moa—the great bird which, in former times, used to stalk about these islands (p. 9S)—asa Maori. The scenery was wild—not unlike that of the west coast of county Cork—but the land was poor. Hills were all around, and mountains in the distance. Nothingcould be more unlike Australia ; and though New Zealand is popularly associated in ourminds with Australia, it may be as well to say once for all that i)erhaps no two countriesare more widely different than the northern collection of colonies and tlie southern one. Thetwo countries both grow wool, and are both auriferous. Squatters and miners are common. A MAORI CLVB.* to them. But in all outward features they are dissimilar—as the}- are in the manner ofthe people, and in the forms of their government. I found myself struck for a momentwith the peculiarity of being in New Zealand. To Australia generally I had earlj- reconciledmyself, as being a part of the British empire. Of New South T\ales and Van DiemensLand I had heard so early in life, as to have become quite used to them, so tbat I didnot think myself to be very far from home when I got there. But New Zealand hadcome up in my own days, and there still remained to me something of the feeling ofawful distance, with whicb, at that time, I regarded the young settlement at the Antipodes—for New Zealand is, of all inhabited lands, the most absolutely Antipodean to Greenwich. * This club 13 composed of scoriaj from Mount Egmont, and was foiinil, in 185o, by
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