150 CHARLES HEDLEY. 
I was surprised to find that their Government furnished them no 
zoological library. 
I was ashore to-day for the last time, as the ship is now ready 
for sea. Her draft is 16 feet aft and 15°5 feet forward. | 
6th. To-day officers of the “Herald,” including the two surgeons 
I have mentioned, and afterward Mr. MacGillivray, visited our 
ship. With the latter gentlemen I had a long and exceedingly 
interesting conversation. I find the lower marine animals of these 
seas have been little investigated, with the exception of Huxley’s. 
examinations of the Hydroid -Polyri, and Mr. M. advises me to 
publish many species which I have found in this harbor, as nothing 
has as yet been done in this field. Mr. M. is, besides his zoological 
duties, engaged in obtaining vocabularies of the language of the 
different islands he visits, and also is preparing an account of the 
voyage for publication. 
7th. We are now under sailing orders, and remain on board, 
waiting for a fair wind. 
8th, Sunday. At sunrise we got under way and proceeded 
down the harbor, but the wind failing, we anchored outside of the 
“Sow and Pigs.” At noon, however, a stiff southerly breeze 
sprung up, and we got under way again at one o'clock and stood 
out of the harbor and on our course to the eastward at the rate 
of six knots per hour. 
9th. S. Lat. 33° 14’. E. Lon. 154° 45’. Wind S.H. Av. 7k. 
10th. S. Lat. 31° 41’. E. Lon. 158° 15’. Wind S: E> Ayan 
At noon we made Lord Howes Island, and spent the afternoon 
in passing it. It consisted of two very high, round-topped moun- 
tains, with almost perpendicular sides, with some low land extend- 
ing from them to the northward. Ball’s Pyramid, a high, needle- 
like rock, was seen to the southward of the island. Flying-fish 
begin to be seen in abundance, a very large species (10 inches or 
more) bright green on the back. A few petrels are flying about 
ahead of the ship, of the size of the Cape pigeon, and mode of 
