I then joined the brig Elizabeth, Captain Browne, bound on a trading voyage to New Zealand, for flax. We remained on that coast, and in the different places adjacent, for nearly eight months ; during which time I had an opportunity of acquiring the New... A New Zealand Chief - Page 4by Barnet Burns - 1835 - 26 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 44 pages
...M'Kensic. I told him my intention : he advised me to go, if I thought proper, and recommended me to I then joined the brig Elizabeth, Captain Browne,...New Zealand language as fluently nearly as my own. a gentleman of the name of Montifore, who had just at that time formed an establishment for the flax... | |
| Thomas Lambert - Eastland (N.Z.) - 1925 - 976 pages
...Wales, in the barque " Nimrod." At Sydney he spent two years in the service of the Bank of Australia. He then joined the brig " Elizabeth," Captain Browne,...bound on a trading voyage to New Zealand for flax. The brig was on the New Zealand coast for nearly eight months, during which time Burns picked up the... | |
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