CHAPTER IV. 



South Island of New Zealand Dunedin Oamaru A Dangerous Climb 

 Dogs An Earthquake A Naturalist's Paradise 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. 



WE landed at Port Chalmers on the eighth of Feb- 

 ruary, the rain descending in torrents, and the wind 

 blowing a gale. All the Dunedin passengers started 

 for the railway station, a miserable little shed, so small 

 that more than half of us were compelled to stand out- 

 side in the drenching rain, waiting for the train. An 

 American railroad company treating its passengers in 

 that way, would be boycotted. The train came at last, 

 and we went on to Dunedin. To my great joy, I saw 

 my father standing on the platform. He looked the 

 handsomest man in all the world to me, and in meeting 

 him the discomforts of my long journey were forgotten. 

 We were soon at the hotel, where I met my brother 

 Shelley. 



What a happy experience it is, when far away, to 

 meet friends from home ! How interested we are in 

 the most trivial affairs connected with their lives and 

 experiences ! It was a joyous party we three made 

 that evening at the Queen's Hotel, as we sat about the 



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