Part 137 (1/2)
1835 W Yate, `True Account of New Zealand,' p 37:
”As a shrub, and during its youthful days, the kauri is not very gracefulbut when it comes to years of maturity, it stands unrivalled for majesty and beauty”
1852 G C Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p 285:
”The kauri (Dammera [sic] Australis) is coniferous, resinous, and has an elongated box-like leaf”
1860 G Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p 349:
”When Captain Cook visited New Zealand (nearly a century after the discovery of the Dammara of Amboyna), he saw, upon the east coast of the Northern Island, a tree, called by the natives Kowrie; it was found to be a second species of Dammara, and was named D australis”
1867 F Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' p 140:
”The Kauri-pine is justly styled the Queen of the New Zealand forestthe celebrated and beautiful Kauri”
1874 W M B, `Narrative of Edward Crewe,' p 169:
”The kauri is the only cone-bearing pine in New Zealand The wood is of a yellow colour, wonderfully free from knots, and harder than the red-pine of the Baltic Beautifully s are sometimes met with, and are frequently made up into furniture”
1875 T Laslett, `Timber and Timber Trees,' p 295:
”The Kaurie or Cowdie-Pine (Dammara Australis) is a native of and is found only in New ZealandA tall and very handso stemFor masts, yards, etc, is unrivalled in excellence, as it not only possesses the requisite dith, but is much more durable than any other Pine” [The whole of chap 37 is devoted to this tree]
1883 F S Renwick, `Betrayed,' p 47:
”As some tall kauri soars in lonely pride, So proudly Hira stood”
1886 J A Froude, `Oceans,' p 318:
”Only the nity Under his branches all was bare and brown”
1889 T Kirk, `Forest Flora of New Zealand,' p 143:
”The Native naeneral use When the timber was first introduced into Britain it was termed `cowrie' or `kowdie-pine'; but the nah it still appears as the common name in some horticultural works”
1890 Brett, `Early History of New Zealand,' p 115:
”`The Hunter' and `Fancy' loaded spars for Bengal at the Thames in 1798””These two Indian vessels in the Thames were probably the earliest European shi+ps that loaded with New Zealand Timber, and probably mark the coum</hw>, n the resin which exudes fro varnish
1867 F Hochstetter, `New Zealand,' p 140:
”In the year 1859 the amount of timber exportation froum exported L 20,776”
1874 G Walch, `Head over Heels,' p 15: