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Inscribed on upper pastedown in the year of publication to Mrs Inglis, Crawford composed this work from his diaries. He sailed for Sydney in 1838 on the Coromandel and took part in a cattle drive to Adelaide, becoming one of the first to make the journey. The following November he sailed to New Zealand, where he would devote the better part of the next forty years. Having visited the Kapiti and Mana islands, he soon purchased land at Auckland and Watts Peninsula, where he established the Glendavar cattle farm. Active and curious, Crawford became an important part of the Wellington community. Accompanying Charles Clifford and Edward Stafford, he explored Wairarapa, served eight years on the Legislative Council, became the principal geologist and later sheriff of Wellington. Ferguson, 8815.