{"product_id":"2940016094311","title":"BRIGHTER BRITAIN","description":"CONTENTS OF VOL. I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. A \"NEW-CHUM'S\" INTRODUCTION             1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. AUCKLAND                               21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   III. GOING UP COUNTRY                       63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV. IN THE KAIPARA                         93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. OUR SHANTY                            115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI. OUR HOME-LIFE                         143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VII. OUR PIONEER FARM. I.                  174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. OUR PIONEER FARM. II.                 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IX. OUR SHOW-PLACE                        227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     X. OUR NATIVE NEIGHBOURS                 253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XI. OUR SETTLER FRIENDS                   285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XII. A PIG-HUNT                            319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBRIGHTER BRITAIN!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \"NEW-CHUM'S\" INTRODUCTION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree months on board ship seems a long while to look forward to, yet it\u003cbr\u003eis but a short time to look back upon. Emigrants, being for the most\u003cbr\u003epart drawn from among dry-land-living populations, are apt to be daunted\u003cbr\u003eby the idea of a long voyage. People would be more ready, perhaps, to\u003cbr\u003econtemplate becoming colonists, were it not for that dreaded crossing of\u003cbr\u003ethe sea which must necessarily be their first step. Their terrors may be\u003cbr\u003enatural enough, but they are more fanciful than real; and once overcome,\u003cbr\u003ethe emigrant smiles at his former self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the first week or two at sea, the most inveterate \"land-lubber\"\u003cbr\u003ebegins to feel at home; in another week or two he has become quite\u003cbr\u003enautical, and imagines himself to have been a sailor half his life;\u003cbr\u003ewhile, when the voyage is over and the time come to go ashore, there are\u003cbr\u003efew who leave their floating home without regret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs things are managed nowadays, there exists no reason for apprehension\u003cbr\u003eof the voyage on the part of would-be colonists. Emigrants who are taken\u003cbr\u003eout \"free\"--that is, at the expense of the colonial government--as well\u003cbr\u003eas those who pay their own passage, are cared for in most liberal and\u003cbr\u003econsiderate style. The rivalry between the various colonies of Australia\u003cbr\u003ehas had this effect among others--that the voyage is made as safe,\u003cbr\u003esmooth, and inviting to emigrants as is possible. They are berthed with\u003cbr\u003ean ever-increasing attention to their care and comfort, while they are\u003cbr\u003eabsolutely pampered and fattened with abundance and variety of the best\u003cbr\u003efood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one expects to commence life in a new country without undergoing some\u003cbr\u003eamount of hardship and difficulty, and when the emigrant gets on shore,\u003cbr\u003eand begins to experience the various little annoyances that a \"new-chum\"\u003cbr\u003emust necessarily undergo, he realizes most thoroughly the pleasures and\u003cbr\u003ecomforts he has left behind him on board ship; and, very frequently,\u003cbr\u003evainly endeavours to suppress the wish that he was back on board \"the\u003cbr\u003eold hooker\" making the voyage out over again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs to _danger_, nothing amuses an old salt more than the bare idea of\u003cbr\u003ethe \"perils of the sea.\" To him, a railway journey, short or long,\u003cbr\u003eappears an infinitely more terrible and risky undertaking than a voyage\u003cbr\u003ehalf round the globe; and he will enumerate the various dangers to which\u003cbr\u003ea landsman is exposed as vastly in excess of those which may happen to\u003cbr\u003ethe mariner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife on board an emigrant-ship would, it might be thought, be somewhat\u003cbr\u003edull and monotonous. As a matter of fact, it is scarcely ever found to\u003cbr\u003ebe so. First of all, the little community of two or three hundred\u003cbr\u003esouls--men, women, and children--contrives to find sufficient fund for\u003cbr\u003eamusement in itself, in all the varieties of social intercourse.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164959359216,"sku":"2940016094311","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016094311","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}