By Lady Barker.
Preface.
Letter I: Two months at sea Melbourne.
Letter II: Sight-seeing in Melbourne.
Letter III: On to New Zealand.
Letter IV: First introduction to "Station life."
Letter V: A pastoral letter.
Letter VI: Society. houses and servants.
Letter VII: A young colonist. the town and its neighbourhood.
Letter VIII: Pleasant days at Ilam.
Letter IX: Death in our new home New Zealand children.
Letter X: Our station home.
Letter XI: Housekeeping, and other matters.
Letter XII: My first expedition.
Letter XIII: Bachelor hospitality. a gale on shore.
Letter XIV: A Christmas picnic, and other doings.
Letter XV: Everyday station life.
Letter XVI: A sailing excursion on Lake Coleridge.
Letter XVII: My first and last experience of "camping out."
Letter XVIII: A journey "down south."
Letter XIX: A Christening gathering. the fate of Dick.
Letter XX: the New Zealand snowstorm of 1867.
Letter XXI: Wild cattle hunting in the Kowai Bush.
Letter XXII: The exceeding joy of "burning."
Letter XXIII: Concerning a great flood.
Letter XXIV: My only fall from horseback.
Letter XXV: How We lost our horses and had to walk home.
