Out to New Zealand for
revision, was, on its return, lost in the Colombo, and was fished up
from the Indian Ocean so nearly washed out as to have been with some
difficulty deciphered.
It should be further stated, for the encouragement of those who think of
following the example of the author, and emigrating to the same
settlement, that his most recent letters indicate that he has no reason
to regret the step that he has taken, and that the results of his
undertaking have hitherto fully justified his expectations.
LANGAR RECTORY
June 29, 1863
CHAPTER I
Embarkation at Gravesend - Arrest of Passenger - Tilbury Fort - Deal - Bay
of Biscay Gale - Becalmed off Teneriffe - Fire in the Galley - Trade Winds-
-Belt of Calms - Death on Board - Shark - Current - S. E. Trade Winds -
Temperature - Birds - Southern Cross - Cyclone.
It is a windy, rainy day - cold withal; a little boat is putting off from
the pier at Gravesend, and making for a ship that is lying moored in the
middle of the river; therein are some half-dozen passengers and a lot of
heterogeneous-looking luggage; among the passengers, and the owner of
some of the most heterogeneous of the heterogeneous luggage, is myself.
The ship is an emigrant ship, and I am one of the emigrants.
