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PEGASUS—THE GIANT PETREL. 
Our southern. trip of 1913 was favoured by ex- 
cellent weather, and a journey by sea accomplished 
in three days that might quite well have taken a 
week or fortnight. Early in October Foveaux 
Strait was crossed for the tenth time, and the 
well-remembered and well-beloved hills of Stewart 
Island again seen in the distance. As we opened 
Half Moon Bay, the light began to fail, and dark 
had fallen by the time we clambered on to the 
wooden wharf, redolent of all sorts of savoury 
sea smells. At dawn the following morning on 
board the T’e Atua we picked up, on their own 
quay, the brothers John and Albert Leask, who 
were to be my companions during ‘the forth- 
coming expedition. The weather was again pro- 
pitious, and after running past Lord’s River, 
Break Sea, and South Cape, late in the afternoon 
we passed through Whaleboat Passage into Port 
Pegasus. 
Ingress to this harbour may be compared to 
