CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



From Boston to San Francisco Professional Sharpers The 

 Emigrant Train Nicknames The Plains A Bad Scare 

 Masquerading as a Soldier Running Down a Freight Train 

 Humboldt River and Lake The Sierra Nevada Moun- 

 tains California Wild Fowl San Francisco The 

 Chinese The Steamer " Zealandia " 1-32 



CHAPTER II. 



From San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand Seasickness 

 Sandwich Islands and Honolulu Off Again Warmer 

 Weather New Year's Games Flying Fish Sea-birds 

 Small-pox Aboard In Quarantine New Zealand Forest and 

 Tree Ferns Snapper Fishing Wild Peaches Birds 

 Sea Life Quilp A Scared Irishman An Indignant 

 Frenchman . 33-55 



CHAPTER III. 



Auckland to Dunedin First Impressions of the English Mode 

 of Travel Ejecting an Intruder Maori King and Chiefs 



Wellington A Happy Experience 56-62 



CHAPTER IV. 



South Island of New Zealand Dunedin Oamaru A Danger- 

 ous Climb Dogs An Earthquake A Naturalist's Para- 

 dise Wild Pigs Crossing a Stream Remains of the Moa 



Journey to the West Coast Hokitika Gold Mines 

 Edible Fungus Nelson A Hard Climb and a Day's Sport 



Bedstead Gully Collingwood Caves Caves at Takaka 



and Bird Remains 63-88 



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