578 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Mr. G. M. Thomson has kindly examined the crustaceans 

 collected, and has written a note for this volume of the Trans- 

 actions." 



On the 22nd of March I walked along the coast-line from 

 Lusitania Bay to the Nuggets, and saw a number of most 

 interesting rookeries of the royal and victoria penguins, and 

 some very romantic rock-scenery. The next morning, as I 

 was commencing to examine the north end of the island, the 

 wind changed and began to blow furiously from the north- 

 east, and snow fell, and it was with some difficulty and 

 danger that we were taken off from the beach to the ship. I 

 was knocked down by the surf whilst getting into the boat, 

 and got very wet. The weather, instead of moderating, be- 

 came so bad that, without being able to communicate with 

 the island again or to take our goods or specimens on board, 

 the captain had to run for the Bluff without waiting to com- 

 plete his cargo. 



On the morning of the 26th (Easter Monday), while running 

 before wind and sea, a very heavy sea broke on board and swept 

 the decks, w T ashing overboard a large surf-boat and the ship's 

 quarter-boat with davits, the cook's galley, with the cook and 

 a young Maori boy in it, and one of the watch on deck. The 

 heavy sea running rendered it impossible to do anything to 

 try to save the men : nothing was ever seen of either men or 

 wreckage. The log recorded a calm at 4 a.m., and at the 

 time the wave came, about 8.30, the barometer was down to 

 28T5 . There was comparatively little wind till the barometer 

 began to rise, which it did at the rate of about 0T an hour. 

 The wind was from E. to S.W. and S. After this we had a 

 fairly good passage, and landed at the Bluff on the 31st of 

 March. 



We had to leave the island with just the clothes we wore, 

 and leave everything on the island that we had collected. 

 Some of our things were brought up on the next trip of the 

 boat, but, as might be expected, a number of valuable speci- 

 mens were ruined, and others never reached us. My photo- 

 graphs and apparatus were brought safely, but, as I said 

 above, the photographs were not satisfactory as works of art. 

 They, however, are of interest as showing several points with 

 greater accuracy than any drawing could do. 



I have to thank Professor Parker, the Curator of the 

 Otago University Museum, for the permission to use the 

 specimens collected for the purposes of my paper, and Mr. 

 Jennings, the taxidermist to the Museum, whose kindness to 

 me during my illness on the voyage both down to the island 

 and back to the Bluff I can never forget. 



* See above, Art. XXII., p. 210. 



