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original intention of going into India after gaur and 

 buffalo, and I determined to look for him forthwith. 

 From Wellington I sailed by the steamer Mokoia 

 to Sydney. It was through the kindness and cheery 

 hospitality of my good friends the P.'s, which I shall 

 not soon forget, that I was enabled during the ten 

 days of my delightful stay in New South Wales to 

 see Katoomba and the Jenolan Caves in the Blue 

 Mountains. At length, having formed golden opin- 

 ions of Australians in general and my hosts in par- 

 ticular, I boarded the since ill-fated Australia, and 

 on March 18 sailed down the beautiful harbor of 

 Sydney, bound again for the East, with "the sights 

 and the sounds and the stinks of her." 



