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TO MY SONS, 
WALTER LEOPOLD 
AND 
ARTHUR PERCIVAL, 
NOW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 
BOTH OF WHOM WERE BORN IN NEW ZEALAND, 
AND SPENT THEIR EARLIER YEARS 
amid the scenes and surrounded by the natural objects 
DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, 
pitjr mittjr AfficBoit, 
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK. 
