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Updated: May 13, 2025
After that there were two streams somewhat similar to the first, and then the dangers of the passage of the river might be considered as accomplished the dangers, but not the difficulties. These consisted in the sluggish creeks and swampy ground thickly overgrown with Irishman, snow-grass, and spaniard, which extend on either side the river for half a mile and more.
I did so with some regret, for we had good fare enough in it, and I rather liked it; we had only stones for seats, but we made splendid fires, and got fresh and clean snow-grass to lie on, and dried the floor with wood-ashes.
Truly it is rather a dismal place on a dark day, and somewhat like the world's end which the young prince travelled to in the story of "Cherry, or the Frog Bride." The grass is coarse and cold-looking great tufts of what is called snow-grass, and spaniard.
Hut Cadets Openings for Emigrants without Capital For those who bring Money Drunkenness Introductions The Rakaia Valley leading to the Rangitata Snow-grass and Spaniard Solitude Rain and Flood Cat Irishman Discomforts of Hut Gradual Improvement Value of Cat.
Then we confined the snow-grass within certain limits by means of a couple of poles laid upon the ground and fixed into their places with pegs; then we put up several slings to hang our saddle-bags, tea, sugar, salt, bundles, etc.; then we made a horse for the saddles four riding-saddles and a pack-saddle and underneath this went our tools at one end and our culinary utensils, limited but very effective, at the other.
It was now neither air-tight nor water-tight; the floor, or rather the ground, was soaked and soppy with mud; the nice warm snow-grass on which I had lain so comfortably the night before I left, was muddy and wet; altogether, there being no fire inside, the place was as revolting-looking an affair as one would wish to see: coming wet and cold off a journey, we had hoped for better things.
Snow-grass, tussock grass, spaniard, rushes, swamps, lagoons, terraces, meaningless rises and indentations of the ground, and two great brown grassy mountains on either side, are the principal and uninteresting objects in the valley through which we were riding. I despair of giving you an impression of the real thing.
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