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Moore, Director of the Botanic Gardens at Sydney, I 

 was enabled to complete all my arrangements without 

 loss of time. When embarking, I had accumulated a 

 whole cart-load of luggage, containing none save the 

 most necessary things, and surveyed by me with a heavy 

 heart when thinking of the difficulty of transporting 

 them from island to island. None save those who have 

 experienced it, can have any conception of travelling in 

 countries where no money is current, and all is paid for 

 in kind. How easy is moving about when one can 

 carry a whole year's travelling expenses in the waistcoat 

 pocket ! But think of people never doing a thing for 

 you unless you have counted out, or measured off, the 

 requisite number or amount of your stock in trade. 



All being ready and the wind fair, I left Sydney Har- 

 bour on Friday, April 20, 1860, on board the 'John 

 Wesley,' Captain Birkenshaw. There were, in all, six 

 passengers, Captain Wilson, from Sydney, about to look 

 after his cocoa-nut oil establishment at Somosomo; 

 Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, a missionary and his wife, for 

 Fiji ; Mr. Storck and myself, and a Fijian native teacher, 

 who had come to Sydney with the vieAV of proceeding 

 to England, but who, after reaching New South Wales, 

 had become so home-sick, that he was obliged to return 

 to his native country. Though having been only a few 

 thousand miles, he would be regarded as a mighty tra- 

 veller on his return, and doubtless looked upon himself 

 as such. For, as the Italian would wish " to see Naples, 

 and die," or the Spaniard declares that 



" El que no ha vista Sevilla 

 No ha vista maravilla " 



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