under these favourable circumstances. There was no occasion for my considerate young girl to indulge in such foolish apprehension of danger. I send you a rough sketch of canoeing by which you will see how comfortably I am sitting in the stern of the middle canoe with Capt Campbell facing me wearing wearing his broad Kilmarnock, and Mr Park taking his observations in the last canoe as quietly as if he was sitting in a drawing room, in fact during fine weather these excursions are so agreeable that the most delicate ladies would enjoy them. Take care of the sketch for me like a good girl as I intend to have it properly finished and copied. I am very much vexed at Mamma's annoyance owing to the unfortunate matter of her cousin (of whom she was so fond) has made. No doubt she would be an excellent companion for Mamma in New Zealand as it would drive all ideas of her going