208 “YACHTING IN MELANESIA. 
thus began what his detractors in New Zealand called his “yachting 
cruises.” The Undine was a fore-and-aft schooner of 21 tons, and a 
square sail could be hoisted on the foremast when the wind was aft. 
The Bishop had already made several trips round New Zealand in this 
little vessel with Champion as master. In his later years Champion 
lived on Norfolk Island, and during my occupation of the chaplaincy 
of the island I had many opportunities of converse with the old man. 
He was naturally full of stories about the Bishop and his prowess. One 
story was told to his own detriment. On one occasion, when about to 
leave Auckland for Wellington, the Bishop on coming aboard found his 
captain drunk. He promptly put him below, shut the hatch, got sails 

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set, and then took the wheel all night and navigated the ship past the 
many islets into open water. In the morning the Bishop opened the 
hatch and called out, “Champion, are you sober!”’ ‘Yes, my lord!”’ 
replied Champion. ‘Then come up and take the wheel while I sleep.”’ 
On Selwyn’s first voyage to Melanesia he had, of course, no modern 
charts to go by; all that he had were some old Russian and Spanish 
charts, the latter being 300 years old. Champion, at my request, made 
a model of the Undine and presented it to the Mission; it 1s now in the 
museum at Norfolk Island. The discomforts of life on a 20-ton schooner 
in the tropics must have been very great, and in addition the Bishop’s 
cabin was often occupied with sick and ailing natives. The fare on 
board was doubtless composed mainly of “bully”’ beef and hard bis- 
