Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, Vol. 4Well, it can hardly be expected that these little plagues would cross in a ferry-boat, though they do seem to come everywhere, and there are those who answer that the rabbits have already put in an appearance upon the further side.Another objection to the route is one that can easily be removed. We hired at Pembroke the only buggy that was to be chartered, and we might write a companion volume to that by Mr. Black, the novelist, calling it Strange Adventures of a Buggy. In the first place, we had to wait a day for it at Wanaka, as it was out. When it appeared, it hardly seemed capable Of holding a party Of four, with the baggage appertaining thereto. Y on cannot travel without some change of raiment, and if you expect cold weather, wraps are needful. Before we parted from that buggy we had conceived quite an affection for it, and I hesitate to take away its character, yet truth compels me to add that my legs were so shockingly cramped therein that a walk was great relief. We lost all confidence in cm conveyance when on the first day, in the course Of a couple Of hours, a spring, a bolt, and a fastening broke, but We patched things up with various ingenious contrivances. When the brake ceased to work, we strapped the wheel with a portmanteau-strap, when a bolt went, we used some wire kindly provided by an obliging fence. Divers smiths along the road helped us. On the last day, as we were drawing near to the mountain, and as the road became rougher and rougher, a doubt found a lodgment in the mind of an occupant Of the back seat whether the whole Of the front seat was not going by the board. He prayed that the catastrophe might not happen in the middle of a river, and to this day he retains the belief that it was only avoided by the bolstering up of the seat by means of his own Gladstone bag. But alas for the poor Gladstone! The most vehement Opponent of the statesman would have pitied it. Future tourists are advised to make due inquiry beforehand, or to take a trap from Queenstown, where they are stout though expensive. At any rate, arrangements should be made for one of the regular strong express waggons that make the journey by the other route to meet the wanderer from Wanaka, either at Pukaki or at the River Ohou.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.