A First Year In Canterbury Settlement By Samuel Butler


















































































































 -   I have two
basses, two tenors, one alto, and lots of girls, and the singing
certainly is better than you - Page 22
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I Have Two Basses, Two Tenors, One Alto, And Lots Of Girls, And The Singing Certainly Is Better Than You Would Hear In Nine Country Places Out Of Ten.

I have been glad by this means to form the acquaintance of many of the poorer passengers.

My health has been very good all the voyage: I have not had a day's sea-sickness. The provisions are not very first- rate, and the day after to-morrow, being Christmas Day, we shall sigh for the roast beef of Old England, as our dinner will be somewhat of the meagrest. Never mind! On the whole I cannot see reason to find any great fault. We have a good ship, a good captain, and victuals sufficient in quantity. Everyone but myself abuses the owners like pick pockets, but I rather fancy that some of them will find themselves worse off in New Zealand. When I come back, if I live to do so (and I sometimes amass a wonderful fortune in a very short time, and come back fabulously rich, and do all sorts of things), I think I shall try the overland route. Almost every evening four of us have a very pleasant rubber, which never gets stale. So you will have gathered that, though very anxious to get to our journey's end, which, with luck, we hope to do in about three weeks' time, still the voyage has not proved at all the unbearable thing that some of us imagined it would have been.

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