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captain, Raynal, the mate, and one of the crew started out on 

 what must have looked the most hopeless of forlorn hopes to 

 brave the tempestuous two hundred miles of heaving waters 



them from 



relate, they gained in safety. This most daring need roused the 

 enthusiasm of Invercargill, whose people equipped the Flying 

 Scud and rescued the two sailors left behind. 



"The case of Musgrave and his crew aroused the public from 

 its apathy, so that first the Victorian Government steamer visitod 

 the islands in 1865, while three years later the brig Amhurst 

 examined all our southern islands for castaways. Later on, the 

 New r Zealand Government erected huts and boatsheds, providing 

 abundance of food, clothing and bedding in the former and a boat 

 in each of the latter. Each year, too, one or more trips are made 

 by the Hinemoa, the Tutanekai, or a man-of-war to the islands, 

 and more than once the first-named vessel has returned with 

 rescued mariners." 



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Oapt. DORRIEN SMITH who was a member of the Southern 

 Islands expedition has kindly permitted his Report to appear in 

 the Bulletin and has also supplied the photographs from which 

 the illustrations have been taken. 



" The Lord Auckland Islands. Lat. 49.50 S. 

 " Nov. 26th, 1907. Long. 66.01 E. 



member 



left the Bluff, N.Z., with some two dozen other members, at 

 8-50 a.m. on November 14th, 1907. The Expedition which 

 originated with the Canterbury Philosophic Society, a branch of 

 the New Zealand Institute, was divided into two parties, half the 

 members going to the Auckland Islands, the other half to the 

 Campbell Islands. The primary object of the expedition was 

 magnetic observation, in both groups of Islands. The other 

 scientific branches included Botany, Geology and Zoology. Thr 

 Government S.S. Hinemoa, Commander Captain Bellons, conveyed 

 the party. At 2 p.m., 14.11.07, put in at Fort Pegasus, near the 

 S.W. extremity of Stewart Is. The whole party proceeded ashore, 

 or in pursuit of fish. The harbour is very fine, and perfectly 

 land-locked and a good anchorage. There are only a few rough 

 shanties, and a fish-freezing works ashore, the place being used 

 chiefly in the winter for fishing. A track through the bush leads 

 across the island to Paterson's Inlet. The island is very rugged 

 and covered with dense bush comprised of Metrosideros lucida, 

 which is dominant and exceedingly gnarled and straggling. 

 Pilocarpus Hallii, Dacrydium cupressum and D. intermedium 

 are very prominent, whilst Panax simplex, Leptospermum scop- 

 arium, Veronica ' buxi folia, Dracophyllum lonyi folium and 

 P>. Pearsoni, form the lower scrub. But the chief feature ot he 

 island plant-life is the wonderful moss cushions, the carpet ot uie 

 forest appearing as if the whole was covered in boulders clad witn 

 moss, but in reality these heaps are solid moss and liverworts, 

 whilst Sphagnum al 



abounds in the bogs. 



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Aspidiums 



Hemitelia Smithii, are plentifal as we as 

 ms and other ferns too numerous to mention, 



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