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I am now going to put up a V hut on the country that I took up on the
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I Am Now Going To Put Up A V Hut On The Country That I Took Up On The Rangitata, Meaning To Hibernate There In Order To See What The Place Is Like.

I shall also build a more permanent hut there, for I must have someone with me, and we may as well be doing something as nothing.

I have hopes of being able to purchase some good country in the immediate vicinity. There is a piece on which I have my eye, and which adjoins that I have already. There can be, I imagine, no doubt that this is excellent sheep country; still, I should like to see it in winter.

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June, 1860. - The V hut is a fait accompli, if so small an undertaking can be spoken of in so dignified a manner. It consists of a small roof set upon the ground; it is a hut, all roof and no walls. I was very clumsy, and so, in good truth, was my man. Still, at last, by dint of perseverance, we have made it wind and water tight. It was a job that should have taken us about a couple of days to have done in first-rate style; as it was, I am not going to tell you how long it DID take. I must certainly send the man to the right-about, but the difficulty is to get another, for the aforesaid hut is five-and-twenty miles (at the very least) from any human habitation, so that you may imagine men do not abound.

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