Text Appearing Before Image: we passed the night, withMount Alexander in the backgroimd. C. A. Tomlinson, Phot. ------ 109 Near the Junction of the Rivers, Haast Pass. C. A. Tomlinson, Phot. - - - - - - 115 In the Upper Haast. C. A. Tomlinson, Phot. - 116 The Fish River : Beech Forest. C. A. Tomlinson, Phot. -------- 119 PART II. The Old Homestead ------ 125 A Comer of Lake Hawea ----- 139 The Berline Leaving Pembroke - - - - 144 Our Nights Quarters in the Niger Hut - - - 151 Submerged ___-__- 152 Mr. Ross to the Rescue - - - - - 154 The Berline is Towed Ashore - - - - 156 The Gate of Death ----- 165 The Lone Shieling ------ 167 Rob Roy Gorge ------- 175 Rob Roy Glacier - - - - - - 178 AKea ------- - 184 In the West Branch of the Matukituki - - - 196 The First View of the Silver Cone - - - - 198 The Berline Starts Homewards - - - - 211 We watched him Ride away _ - - - 212 Finis -------- 214 A Sketch 3Iap to show the Authors Route in the Second Journeyis folded in at the end. PABT I. A RIDE THROUGH SOUTH WESTLAND. Text Appearing After Image: HPiSTCHUHCh NEW ZEALAIvTD SOUTH ISLAND CHAPTER I. THROUGH THE OTIRA. The silence and the sunshine creep With soft caressOer billowy plain and mountain steep And wilderness—A velvet touch, a subtle breath.As sweet as love, as calm as death.On earth, on air, so soft, so fine,Till all the soul a spell divine Oer shadoweth. George Essex Evans. Out of the town and along the dusty white roadlined with trim houses, and gardens aglow withcolour: on to country roads less dusty and withfewer and fewer houses, we rode forth one morning.It was six oclock. The road-side herbage wasdrenched with dew. A grey-blue haze lay allover the wide Canterbury plains which seemed tostretch away to the farthest horizon, tall gumtrees and fir plantations round the homesteadsbreaking the monotony of their flatness. Every-where the crops were ripening to harvest; anotherweeks sunshine and the wheatfields that wavedall golden now would be cut. Fruit ripened inthe orchards, and summer was at its height. It was a b
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