Chapter XXIX: Tasmania, Early Days—Description of the Town of Hobart—An Englishman’s Love of Home Surroundings—Neatest City on Earth—The Museum—A Parrot with an Acquired Taste—Glass Arrow Beads—Refuge for the Indigent too healthy
Chapter XXX.
Arrival at Bluff, N. Z.—Where the Rabbit
Plague Began—The Natural Enemy
of the Rabbit—Dunedin—A Lovely
Town—Visit to Dr. Hockin—His
Museum
—A Liquified Caterpillar—The
Unperfected Tape Worm—The Public Museum
and
Picture
CHAPTER XXXI. The Express Train—“A Hell of a Hotel at Maryborough” —Clocks and Bells—Railroad Service.
Chapter XXXII.
Description of the Town of Christ Church—A
Fine Museum—Jade-stone
Trinkets—The Great Man—The First
Maori in New Zealand—Women Voters
—“Person” in New Zealand Law
Includes Woman—Taming an Ornithorhynchus
—A Voyage in the ‘Flora’ from
Lyttelton—Cattle Stalls for Everybody
—A Wonderful Time.
Chapter XXXIII.
The Town of Nelson—“The Mongatapu
Murders,” the Great Event of the Town
—Burgess’ Confession—Summit
of Mount Eden—Rotorua and the Hot Lakes
and Geysers—Thermal Springs District—Kauri
Gum—Tangariwa Mountains
Chapter XXXIV.
The Bay of Gisborne—Taking in Passengers
by the Yard Arm—The Green
Ballarat Fly—False Teeth—From
Napier to Hastings by the Ballarat Fly
Train—Kauri Trees—A Case of
Mental Telegraphy
Chapter XXXV.
Fifty Miles in Four Hours—Comfortable Cars—Town
of Wauganui—Plenty of
Maoris—On the Increase—Compliments
to the Maoris—The Missionary Ways
all Wrong—The Tabu among the Maoris—A
Mysterious Sign—Curious
War-monuments—Wellington
Chapter XXXVI.
The Poems of Mrs. Moore—The Sad Fate of
William Upson—A Fellow Traveler
Imitating the Prince of Wales—A Would-be
Dude—Arrival at Sydney
—Curious Town Names with Poem
Chapter XXXVII. From Sydney for Ceylon—A Lascar Crew—A Fine Ship—Three Cats and a Basket of Kittens—Dinner Conversations—Veuve Cliquot Wine—At Anchor in King George’s Sound Albany Harbor—More Cats—A Vulture on Board—Nearing the Equator again—Dressing for Dinner—Ceylon, Hotel Bristol—Servant Brampy—A Feminine Man—Japanese Jinriksha or Cart—Scenes in Ceylon—A Missionary School—Insincerity of Clothes
Chapter XXXVIII.
Steamer Rosettes to Bombay—Limes 14 cents
a Barrel—Bombay, a Bewitching
City—Descriptions of People and Dress—Woman
as a Road Decoration
—India, the Land of Dreams and Romance—Fourteen
Porters to Carry Baggage
—Correcting a Servant—Killing
a Slave—Arranging a Bedroom—Three
Hours’
Work and a Terrible Racket—The Bird of
Birds, the Indian Crow
Chapter XXXIX.
God Vishnu, 108 Names—Change of Titles
or Hunting for an Heir—Bombay as
a Kaleidoscope—The Native’s Man Servant—Servants’
Recommendations—How
Manuel got his Name and his English—Satan—A
Visit from God