Poenamo - Sketches of the Early Days of New Zealand; Romance and Reality of Antipodean Life in the Infancy of a New Colony #228299

The manuscript from which these pages have been printed was not written with any intention that it should ever be published. It was meant merely as a narrative for the perusal of the writer's own children, depicting as it does his own early life. This could never have been known to them unless it had been set down in some such succinct form as the writer has made his manuscript assume.