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CONCERNING A HURRICANE— THE 

 SOUTHERN SEAS AND FISHING THEREIN 



After making several trips to the Mediterranean, 

 and one to Egypt (this time with the Duke of 

 Rutland), in 1866, he accompanied Lady Herbert of 

 Lea and her children on a tour through Spain, and 

 in 1867 went with her eldest son — the Earl of 

 Pembroke — to the South Seas. 



For the greater part of the next three years ' the 

 Earl and the Doctor' were travelling together in 

 Australia and New Zealand, and cruising in the 

 Pacific, ' dropping down from one lovely island to 

 another, seeing the strangest sights imaginable,' in 

 the Albatross^ a little coasting schooner, which was 

 purchased in Auckland, and fitted up as a yacht 

 (captained by one James Braund — a native of 

 Bucks, near Clovelly). Their experiences in the 

 Society, the Harvey, and the Navigator Groups — 

 how, one dark and stormy night, the Albatross took 

 the coral, and how they subsequently fared for nine 

 days on a desolate island named Nukumbasanga 



