A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . een like. They had been goodenough to leave us some very tough indigestible beef, andbread. Our party divided here, some proceeding direct toGreymouth, via Reefton, and we others going through thelower Buller gorge to Westport. We soon rejoined the river, and ran parallel to it overa road carved out of the perpendicular wall of rock, inplaces consisting simply of a groove in the face of the cliff,and those on the inner side had to be careful to duck theirheads as we passed along. We drove under rough-hewnarches softened by trailing greenery, or th
A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . een like. They had been goodenough to leave us some very tough indigestible beef, andbread. Our party divided here, some proceeding direct toGreymouth, via Reefton, and we others going through thelower Buller gorge to Westport. We soon rejoined the river, and ran parallel to it overa road carved out of the perpendicular wall of rock, inplaces consisting simply of a groove in the face of the cliff,and those on the inner side had to be careful to duck theirheads as we passed along. We drove under rough-hewnarches softened by trailing greenery, or through shorttunnels, marvelling at the amount of labour expended onthe making of such a road. Superlatives have run short, and I can only say thescenic beauty we travelled through in the afternoon equalled,if not surpassed, in every respect what we had seen in themorning. Creature comforts, or the lack of them, it must be con-fessed, make a more or less vivid impression on most of us,and now quite a different set of superlatives is required to. NELSON TO REEFTON 95 describe the hotel at which, for our sins, we were forced tostay the night. The paper in my room was by slow de-grees roHing itself off the wall; the appointments of thewhole place were in the same shabby condition, and as Iwashed my hands, I read from a notice on the wall some-thing to this effect:— ** Owing to the Labour Laws, on Wednesday dinnerwill be served in the middle of the day, and tea at sevenoclock. Of course Wednesday was the day the coach arrived, soafter a very poor lunch, a nondescript meal washed down bytea was all we could hope for. Colonials are more or lessused to this sort of repast, but one of the Englishmen ofthe party was quite unaccustomed to such treatment, andaudibly expressed his dissatisfaction. His anger knew nobounds when, on our return to Inanguhua Junction nextday, he was served with a piece of the self-same beef whichhad nearly killed him the preceding day. It is quite true that whe
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