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Boards rubbed with staining. Spine faded. Some wear and short tears to cloth at ends of spine. Previous owner's name "Jane Willis / Jany 1854". ; Volume One (complete) containing 26 issues. iv, 628 pages. Blind-stamped cloth boards. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 212mm x 134mm. Notable in this volume is an early periodical issue of "Narrative of a Journey through part of the North Island of New Zealand", by David Rough (here printed anonymously). This account of travel in New Zealand was first published in the periodical "The New Zealander", then here in "Home Friend", before being separately issued in book form later in the year 1852 by the SPCK in an edition with a frontispiece, a plate, and a map of "New Ulster or North Island". This Home Friend issue is in two installments, in Vol. 1, Nos. 9 and 10 of the Home Friend. This "Home Friend" edition does not have a map, but has 2 wood-engraved illustrations, both differing to the frontispiece in the scarce separately issued edition. The two illustrations in this edition are titled "Group of Natives in New Zealand" and "Portrait of a New Zealand Chief." The text appears to be the same as in the separately issued book edition, except that the book edition begins with "MY DEAR ____, According to my promise" while this "Home Friend" text begins with "According to my promise". "The New Zealander is not less hospitable than the Indian chief, but he has very different ideas as to what constitutes comfort. During our whole journey, we were never refused a share of such food and shelter as the natives have for themselves; and though we sometimes passed the night in one hut with the men and women - grandfathers, grandmothers, children, dogs and pigs - the best corner was cheerfully given up to the 'pakeha' (stranger), and even there, lying altogether round the fire in the middle of the hut, and listening to their remarks and jokes, we were well amused with the study of human nature which the habits of these children of nature afforded us." - page 211. "At sunset we entered an extensive valley bounded on one side by a range of steep hills, burning in many places. The natives chose the immediate vicinity of some boiling mud holes as the best place for encamping; we yielded unwillingly to their anxiety for a warm berth, though the ground on which our tent was pitched seemed to be a mere crust of earth over an incandescent substratum. Before we had finished supper it became so hot that we could not sit upon it, and made a hasty retreat to another position." - page 226. [Reference: c.f. Bagnal 4931 for the separately issued first edition : "By sea to Tauranga, thence Maketu, Rotoiti, Rotorua, Ohinemutu, Rotomahana, the Rev. S. M. Spencer, Lake Taupo (Tapuaeharuru and the chief Poihipi); return to Auckland via Otawhao, the Waipa and Waikato Rivers, in August / September 1849."]. Seller Inventory # 24399
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