Named after a battle won by an Austrian army in Italy, the frigate Novara acted as the link between Austria and the Maori people. It is on this ship that the authors of our diary travelled to Vienna where they met the Emperor and learned the printing trade. This photograph is after a painting by Zoebl, done in 1903. A VIENNA JOURNAL HE WHARE PEREHI O TE KINGI na WIREMU TOETOE TUMOHE Tenei korero mo te pai o tenei iwi o te Taiti. Ka nui te pai o taua iwi, heoi ano te iwi pai i kitea ai e maua ki nga whenua pakeha. Te papai o nga whare, te papai o nga kai me ana wai. I nui te pai o tona tangata te karanga mai kia haere noa atu ki te whare kia mahia he kai. Te kore kai rama, kahore he haurangi kahore mea kotahi i kitea e maua ki te rori ahakoa iwa noa nga marama ki reira e noho ana maua, Kaore hoki tetahi mea kino i kitea e maua ki taua whenua. Heoi ano te motu rangatira e noho nei i te ao ko Haramane. Tana moni he moni pukapuka; kaore i penei me ta te Ingarihi moni: he rereke ta tenei iwi ta tenei iwi tana moni ta te Taiti. E kotahi pene ana te utu mo te tangata ina kai ki roto i nga whare kainga, ta te Ingarihi e nuku ana ki te rua hereni. These words are set down in praise of the Austrians. They are a good people, the most generous people we visited in the land of the Europeans. The buildings are beautiful, the food and the beverages delicious. Hard liquor is not found amongst them, nor did we see one drunk on the road during the nine months of our stay and we did not see anything bad in that land. They are undoubtedly a people of the highest standing in the world. They have paper money which is unlike that of the English. Money varies from people to people and theirs is Austrian money. It only costs one penny for a meal in a restaurant, whereas in England it is more than two shillings. We began our stay in this country in the month of September 1859, and were taken to a leading chief of the land who was to arrange the place