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Letters from New Zealand
out the land, and bring the horse back to Christchurch. It will be a new experience; the country is roadless, and, save in certain directions, trackless, traversed by numerous rivers and streams, which must be forded, and in many places interspersed with swamps difficult to cross, and, unless I have the good luck to fall in with some fellow-traveller, I may have to do what I can by myself.
In my next letter I will tell you how I fared.
Meanwhile I am,
Yours ever,
H. W. H.
