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Lytielton, The ship lay at Lyttelton for three months, under- 
es going a general and thorough refit. Rennick was 
employed the whole time in plotting as much of the 
surveying work carried out in the south, as could be 
done in the time, and in preparing the charts for the forthcoming 
winter’s cruise; while Bruce looked after the refit. 
Here we should like to take the opportunity of thanking 
Mr. J. J. Kinsey for the great trouble he always took to help 
the Expedition in every way that lay in his power. 
WINTER CRUISE 
The ship again left Lyttelton on July 10 for a three months’ 
cruise, to carry out surveying work round the Three 
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aie “ Kings’ Islands and between this group and the ex- 
Winter treme north of New Zealand. 
Cruise. 
Hereabouts rather troubled waters prevail, as the 
swell from the Tasman Sea to the west meeting that from the 
Pacific to the east often causes a confused swell even in calm 
weather. The routine was to sound all day and have Lillie’s 
plankton nets over all night, while opportunities for trawling 
were always taken as they occurred, Lillie being ready any hour 
of the day or night. On the whole a very good biological col- 
lection as obtained. 
Occasionally a visit was paid to Mangonui on the east coast 
to take in fresh provisions, but, as a rule, the ship was hove to 
for the night. 
Lillie gave a series of popular lectures on evolution, which 
aroused the greatest interest fore and aft and did a great deal 
to break the monotony of the time. 
Rennick and Mr. Williams very ingeniously adapted a motor 
(most generously lent by Mr. Kinsey from a motor-boat) to 
work the Lucas sounding machine, which quite trebled the ship’s 
sounding efficiency. 
Sounding work does not, as a rule, provide exciting incidents, 
the day when it is undertaken coming under one of two headings 
—suitable for work or unsuitable. On unsuitable days, if the 
wind was easterly, nothing could be done except to heave to and 
drift; if westerly, there was good anchorage inside North Cape 
(the extreme north-east point of New Zealand), and the whole 
