NEW ZEALAND. 



THE OCEAN VOYAGE — CLIMATE — NATIVES — AUCKLAND- 

 AUCKLAND HOSPITAL MEDICAL PROFESSION. 



The American has become during the last twenty-five 

 years an enthusiastic traveler, and the increasing pros- 

 perity in our country will only tend to increase his de- 

 sire to see the outside world and familiarize himself 

 with the greatest of all subjects — man — his customs 

 and habits in various parts of the globe, as well as the 

 conditions, climatic and otherwise, which influence his 

 physical and mental characteristics. The observing 

 traveler will have become aware that 



"Men's characters and habits are not influenced 

 so much by the peculiarities of family and race as 

 by the physical features of their native land and 

 their mode of life — things by which we are sup- 

 ported and by which we live." — Cicero. 



The people of the United States spend annually 

 $160,000,000 in touring the old world; very few, in- 

 deed, direct their steps westward, and we as a nation 

 know very little of New Zealand, the land of geysers, 

 mountains, glaciers, fjords, and the Maoris of the great 

 continent of Australia, its strange animals, trees and 

 flowers, its vast plains, impenetrable forests, and the 

 home of one of the most primitive of all races. The 

 American globe trotter usually selects the Japanese 

 route. For a summer trip the Australian route is de- 

 cidedly the best. 



VOYAGE PROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW ZEALAND. 



The southwestern part of the world. New Zealand 

 and Australia, are now readily accessible to the traveler 

 by the establishment of a regular steamer service. The 

 three sister ships of the Oceanic Steamship Company, 



