sentences:  Boultbee joined a sealing gang from the "Samuel", and stowed away on the ship at Paterson Inlet, landing penniless in Port Jackson on 8 March 1828.His journal was compiled 'more for the amusement of my relations and friends, than with a view to that of the Public', but his first-hand account of the sealing industry on New Zealand's southern coasts is a rare and vital record of a trade cloaked in the secrecy of competition.Boultbee's New Zealand journal was adapted into a one-man play by Brian Potiki.