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Lyttelton, The ship lay at Lyttelton for three months, under- 



g m g 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 



July io-Oct. ,,. \ T , , J J . . . , 



10, 1911. Kings Islands and between this group and the ex- 

 w inter 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 



