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Reach — Hopeful Bay — Rhodes Harbour — The seal fisheries — 
Return to Christmas Harbour — Penguin rookeries — The Arch 
Rock — Leaving Kerguelen for the south— The Heard Islands 
— Description of the land — Leave the Heard Islands — The 
first Antarctic iceberg — In the icy regions — The icebergs and 
pack-ice— Birds — Cross the Antarctic Circle — Early explorers 
of these inhospitable regions — Wilkes’ Termination Land — 
The Aurora Australis — An Antarctic gale — Enter the pack — 
No signs of land — Leave the pack — Dredging— A second 
gale — Shape our course for Australia — Trawling — The weather 
— The last iceberg — Passage to Australia — Land in sight — 
Arrive and anchor in Hobson’s Bay, Victoria Ill 
CHAPTER VII. 
MELBOURNE (VICTORIA) TO SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALES) AND WELINGTON 
(NEW ZEALAND). 
Melbourne — The city and suburbs — Visit to Ballarat— The city 
— Its gold mines — Melbourne to Sydney — First sight of 
Sydney Heads — Arrive at Sydney, New South Wales — Anchor 
in Farm Cove — Sydney Harbour — Picnic on Mount Victoria — 
Zigzag on the Great Western Railway — The Blue Mountains, 
and Valley of the Nepean — The city — Paramatta River — 
Rhodes — The dredging picnic — Entertainments during our 
stay — Early history of the colony — Leave Sydney — The stormy 
weather — Return and anchor in Watson’s Bay — Sydney to 
New Zealand — Daily soundings — Rough weather — Anchor for 
shelter in Port Hardy and Queen Charlotte Sound — Man 
washed overboard and drowned — Sight Palliser Heads — 
Anchor off Wellington— Port Nicholson. 147 
CHAPTER VILE. 
WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) TO FRIENDLY AND FIJI ISLANDS, TO 
THE NEW HEBRIDES GROUP, AND TO SOMERSET, CAPE YORK (QUEENS- 
LAND, AUSTRALIA). 
At Wellington — Results of the soundings — Formation of the 
bottom — Description of the city — Australia and New Zealand 
— Leave Wellington — Squally weather — Sight the Kermadec 
Islands— Sounding and trawling — The Friendly Islands — Eoa 
— Tongatabu — Anchor off Nukalofa — Tonga — The village: 
its natives — Tapa : its manufacture — Captain Croker’s attack 
on Bea, and the result — Foliage and scenery — Leave Tonga- 
