To be systematic, I have constructed my book on a plan—the descriptions are numbered, and they run in the following order:
1. All that it is impossible to describe by the medium of words.
2. All that strikes the stranger dumb with admiration.
3. All that exceeds the wildest flights of Eastern imagination, and holds the wanderer spell-bound with enchantment.
4. All natural creations which can never be obliterated from the feeblest memory.
5. All that you can only sigh and gush about.
6. Tableau and revelations of beauty.
THE JOURNEY TO NEW ZEALAND.
1. By the medium of mere words it is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the grandeur—the surprising loveliness we may say—of the elegant and palatial-like appearance of the steamers which carry the wanderer to New Zealand.
(New Zealand being an island surrounded by water, it is necessary to approach it by boat or balloon. I went in a boat.)