Stack, Eliza Rachel Jane, 1829-1919 : Jottings from my New Zealand journal / E R J J[ones]

The journal begins in March 1858 and ends in November 1858. A note, 24 years later, describes her revisit to Kohanga and gives a brief historical summary. The journal describes life in Auckland, a voyage to Tauranga on the cutter `Hope', and visits to mission stations there and at Maketu, a trip through the thermal area and back to Auckland through Thames, the Waikato and Taupiri. Eliza Jones describes Maori life and conditions, flora and fauna as well as many of the people she met on her journey, including Archeacon Brown, Rev Volkner, John Kinder and Thomas Chapman, whose poem `The rats' lament', about the Maketu rats, is given in full. The journal has been copy edited, probably by A H Reed

This journey described in `Further Maoriland Adventures of J W and E Stack', (Dunedin: Reed, 1938)

Source of title - Title page

Variations in title - Spine title: New Zealand 1858

Eliza Jones visited New Zealand in 1857 and married the missionary, Rev James West Stack in 1861.

Quantity: 1 volume(s) (187 leaves).

Physical Description: Typescript (carbon copy) (27 cm; black boards)

Photographs, reproductions from published items, and two original watercolour sketches presumably done by Eliza Jones, one of Kohanga Mission Station on the Waikato River and another of a river scene