2 1 2 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



a place of importance. In our absence, while 

 liberating the fish, the crew of the Pharos 

 had landed the stores, so that we were, on 

 our return, enabled to at once proceed to 

 Blanket Bay, where we arrived about 11 o'clock 

 the same morning. . . . We were, without 

 delay, rowed to the shore in the large boat 

 of the Pharos, and carried on shore by the 

 sailors, when we at once divided the fish 

 into four fish-tins, largely supplied with iced 

 water, and rolled the tins round with rugs 

 and canvas. Messrs. Stephenson, and Walls 

 had, at their own expense, provided pack- 

 horses, all ready . . . and we started for 

 the Aire river. The journey through the bush 

 was very difficult and trying. We crossed the 

 Parker river at about two miles inland from 

 the sea, and took advantage of its delightfully 

 cold and clear water to replenish our fish-tins ; 

 and we also placed the tins themselves in the 

 stream for half an hour, at tbe same time 

 liberating in the water 12 of the young fish. 

 The reason that we did not put more in the 

 Parker is that the falls in it near to the 

 sea are very steep, and the stream is very 

 much blocked up with timber. The fish will 



