The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand / A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland.

The author describes a six-hundred-mile exploratory journey across a largely unmapped interior of New Zealand, documenting topography, rivers, lakes, mountains, and vegetation, and presenting barometric altitudes and sketches used to produce a detailed map. He records encounters with Māori communities, including a formal visit to the Māori King, accounts of local customs, and observations on population, language, flora, and fauna. Travel conditions, routes through the Lake Country and mountain plateaus, climatic extremes, and logistical challenges are narrated alongside practical information for settlement and surveying, with appended appendices of plant and animal lists, biographical sketches of chiefs, and a compendium of useful Māori words.