FIJI-NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITION 241 
front of my fire-place. He is a most genial man and has had many 
notable experiences. He very kindly presented me with the 
splendid two volume monograph, ‘‘The Sub-Antarctie Islands of 
New Zealand,’’ of which he is editor. It is a fine piece of book- 
manking, containing many beautiful plates, some of which are 
colored. These remote and uninhabited islands are of extreme 
scientific interest, although even their names are unknown to most 
people. Those included in the work referred to are all to the 
south and southeast of New Zealand and include the Snares, the 
Auckland Island group, Campbell Island, Antipodes Islands, 
Bounty Islands and the Macquarie Islands. The last le some six 
hundred miles to the southeast of New Zealand, in latitude 57° 
south and so are well within the Antarctic area, as are most of 
the others. They are also notable as the home of the elephant 
seal, an animal of exceptional interest to zoologists. The Snares, 
the Auckland group and Campbell Islands are also the home of 
the southern fur-seal which is said still to be quite numerous. 
The fur-seal proper, Arctocephalus forsteri, although at one time 
threatened with extermination, now seems to be increasing. They 
are at present found on the Snares, Bounties and the western 
coast of South Island. 
The expedition of which these volumes form the report was 
sent out in 1907 by the Dominion Government at the request of 
a number of scientific societies, prominent among which were the 
Philosophical Institute of Canterbury and the Otago Institute. 
As I had made the acquaintance of several members of the ex- 
pedition, i.e., Dr. Cockayne, Professor Speight, Professor Kirk and 
Dr. Chilton, the ‘‘Sub-Antarctiec Islands of New Zealand’’ is a 
work of personal as well as scientific interest to me and constitutes 
one of the real treasures of my book-shelves. It is published by 
the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury and is a eredit to all 
concerned in its production. 
On August 10 I bade good-bye £0. my Christechureh friends after 
enjoying lunch with Professor Speight and Mr. Archey, took the 
afternoon train to Lyttelton, which was reached after dark, and 
went immediately on board the ferry for Wellington which sailed 
almost at once. 
That evening, while seated in the smoking room of the ferry, 
a man, whom I took to be a jockey returning from the races after 
a successful race week, sat down beside me. Without consulting 
me he ordered two whiskeys and sodas and handed one to me. 
