(12, p. 71.)
And sway’d by faithlessness intense,
In an overruling Providence,
They’ve pack’d their baggage and have gone;
In an overruling Providence,
They’ve pack’d their baggage and have gone;
There were a few gentlemen who might have done something in the way of clearing their land, and so giving employment even to the men they brought with them. But it appears they only came for a different purpose—namely, only to watch the chances of the land market, and realise the highest price possible, and so be gone. About the time of the disturbances arising at the Bay of Islands several, having sold their lands at good profit, now thought it high time to be off, lest they should be overtaken by the threatening storm.
