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the moutb of the harbour and lauded on the hillside. Here 

 we picked a spot clear of scrub and clambered up. Some 

 were bent on albatros-egg hunting, and had fair success. I 

 was searching for plants, but found little beyond what we had 

 seen elsewhere. Mr. Kirk was more successful, and obtained 

 some rare and obscure plants. This was the shady side of 

 the harbour, and our experience satisfied us that it is far 

 better to ascend the sunny side, as the vegetation is less rank. 

 Here it was so rank as to make walking extremely difficult. 

 The size of the Ligusticum latifoUum of several varieties was 

 amazing. Some of the Coprosvia shrubs were laid so low and 

 rendered so dense by the wind that we found it the best mode 

 of progression to walk on top of them, though they sank down 

 like spring beds with the weight. 



On our return we steamed out and lauded some sheep in 

 the most promising place available in East Bay, another good 

 harbour. These were provided, as much of the live-stock is, 

 by the Invercargill Wreck Fund, an institution which has, under 

 the supervision of Mr. John Macphersou, of Invercargill, for 

 many years made thoughtful provision for shipwrecked seamen. 

 East Bay is a pretty little harbour, not unlike Fly Harbour, 

 in Adam's Island, in character, but without the forest. The 

 flowering-plants along its margin were extremely beautiful. 

 Hence we coasted to the north-east angle of the island, stand- 

 ing inshore to examine the vast rookeries of mollymawks, 

 which occupy a large piece of ground inaccessible from below 

 and difficult of approach from above owing to the necessity 

 for making a long journey through the scrub to reach it. 

 These birds have a singular faculty for picking out safe nest- 

 ing-nl-Tces. At this season their young are nearly hatched. 

 Hence we steamed away in the evening, after two pleasant 

 days of rambling, for Autij)odes Island — a long journey which 

 kept us all next day and night at sea. We experienced nothing 

 of tlie vile climate said to prevail here. 



VI. Antipodes Island. 

 r^arly on the second day after leaving Campbell Island we 

 were off another high island with a few steep outliers. This 

 island has no harbours, and is surrounded by cliffs, under 

 which, as at the Snares, were numerous rookeries of penguins. 

 Wherever we went it was the crested penguin ; we only ob- 

 tained three specimens of other kinds in the whole trip — one 

 being the great king penguin, and the others being somewhat 

 similar but smaller birds, possibly immature specimens of the 

 same kind. We anchored under a noble cliff of contorted basalt 

 and tufa on the north-east side, well named Perpendicular 

 Head. Outside of the anchorage were two islets never yet 

 visited, one of which exhibits a tine natural arch of rock. The 



