The Canterbury Settlement, New Zealand - sketch on board the "Randolph" Emigrant Ship, 1850. Colonists depart from the East India Dock on the Thames in London: '...cabin passengers - purchasers of land, and their families, who have helped to form the plan of the colony, and are going out as are distinguished from the mass of emigrating high personal are not driven from the are attracted to the colony by the prospects which its singular organization holds in the evening dancing took place on the upper deck
The Canterbury Settlement, New Zealand - sketch on board the "Randolph" Emigrant Ship, 1850. Colonists depart from the East India Dock on the Thames in London: '...cabin passengers - purchasers of land, and their families, who have helped to form the plan of the colony, and are going out as are distinguished from the mass of emigrating high personal are not driven from the are attracted to the colony by the prospects which its singular organization holds in the evening dancing took place on the upper deck of the Randolph, to the music of the band of the Coldstream [the passengers displayed] a manly and dignified cheerfulness suited to the occasion, and to the character of the English, now the only nation in the world capable of planning and accomplishing such enterprises'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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