A delicious bush-track we traversed in pursuit of surveyors' pegs, where the horses sank ... over their fetlocks and the marks of where the River Ruamahanga in floods had been, were on the trees about level with our heads on horseback and the track was then about 15 feet above the then level of the river ... [1867]. Drawings & Prints Collection, Reference No. E-370-009-2 Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand