SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS 



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The kangaroo is 

 difficult game for the 

 hunter on foot, as he 

 travels rapidly and 

 offers a target only 

 when he appears above 

 the bushes at the top 

 of his leap. The usual 

 method is to hunt him 

 with dogs and on 

 horseback. 



We visited the hard- 

 wood lumber industry 

 in the huge gum and 

 jarrah forests along 

 the coast and saw 

 something of the fruit- 

 growing and farming 

 regions. 



The annual rainfall, 

 90 per cent of which 

 comes in the winter 

 months — from April 

 to October — ranges 

 from 40 inches along 

 the coast to less than 

 ten inches in the in- 

 terior, diminishing 

 rather regularly from 

 the coast inland. Yet 

 with a rainfall of only 

 ten inches, equally dis- 

 tributed from May to 

 October, enormous 

 crops of wheat are 

 grown with profit, and 

 the acreage planted in 

 grain is increasing 

 rapidly. 



On leaving this 

 democratic country, 

 where the people were extremely cor- 

 dial and unusually interested in our work, 

 we felt that, while the progress of West- 

 ern Australia as an agricultural country 

 has been rapid, in view of the brief 16 

 years of intensive activity, yet its possi- 

 bilities have scarcely been touched, and it 

 is destined to become one of the great 

 countries of the world.* 



Cape Leeuwin maintained its reputation 

 as a stormy and dangerous region. For 

 12 hours we were skirting this circular 



* See, also, "Lonely Australia, the Unique 

 Continent," by Herbert E. Gregory, in The 

 Geographic for December, 1916. 



Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 



CEYLON ELEPHANTS BEING GIVEN THEIR DAILY BATH 



These beasts of burden require careful treatment to prevent their 

 hide from cracking and chafing. They are scrubbed daily with coco- 

 nut husks and water. 



coast too near for comfort, in a heavy 

 southwest gale, with high seas running, 

 and the wind hauling ahead slowly during 

 the day, just sufficient to keep the vessel 

 within a dangerous distance from shore. 



Thirty minutes after we finally cleared 

 the rocks off the cape and were out in 

 the open Southern Ocean, the gale died 

 out to a calm, as though baffled of its 

 prey. 



Royal Company Islands, formerly re- 

 ported as existing at latitude 50 degrees 

 south, below the eastern end of Australia, 

 have joined that numerous company of 

 lost islands of the sea. We passed over 



