A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . ther. It was a dirty and inauspicious night when we boarded 46 A WOMAN IN THE ANTIPODES the ss. Clansman for Russell, but we were pleasantlysurprised to find four other people whom we knew alsogoing in the same direction, and we sat for a short time onwet seats and a sloppy deck before retiring to our bunks asthe only dry places to be found. Being delayed a little by adverse winds, it was sometwelve hours after we quitted Auckland before we crossedthe beautiful Bay of Islands, where we realized the aptnessof the name bestowed by Captain Cook as we
A woman in the Antipodes and in the Far East . ther. It was a dirty and inauspicious night when we boarded 46 A WOMAN IN THE ANTIPODES the ss. Clansman for Russell, but we were pleasantlysurprised to find four other people whom we knew alsogoing in the same direction, and we sat for a short time onwet seats and a sloppy deck before retiring to our bunks asthe only dry places to be found. Being delayed a little by adverse winds, it was sometwelve hours after we quitted Auckland before we crossedthe beautiful Bay of Islands, where we realized the aptnessof the name bestowed by Captain Cook as we steeredour way through the clustering islets, to the wooden pierjutting out from the shore in front of the little township ofRussell. It was then we began to realize that we were at thebirthplace of one of the most promising of the numerousoffspring of the British Empire, and would soon be viewingground on which were enacted events which made possiblethe nativity of this prosperous stripling, destined to growinto the Dominion of New THE FERRY AND WHAKF
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