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xii “The Cathedral that overshadows the City.”

“Its entrance is in a charming lime-avenued road.”

A Scene on Hagley Park, Christchurch.

“The Founder of Canterbury.”

“Sleek cows in the paddocks.”

The N.Z.S.S. Company’s ships at Lyttelton.

Dunedin.

“The Octagon—with Burns’ Statue and Town Hall.”

“Something that recalls the older city.”

“So many beautiful Churches.”

“First Church is certainly the most interesting.”

Lake Wakatipu.

“Sloping down to the very edge of the lake.”

“Shining in the sun in the midst of green acres.”

“The gorges are deep and very steep.”

“At the far end and head of the lake.”

“A visit to ‘Paradise’ was to have occupied Sunday.”

“Had gone off quite happily to climb Ben Lomond.”

Huia.

Clematis.

“The Lennox Falls at Mount Earnslaw.”

“When the soft lights of the Southern twilight were on the hills.”

New Zealand Quail.

Tuis.

“Towering cold and white. . . behind emerald hills.”

“Close to the water’s edge blazed the rata.”

“Between its fern-clad, bush-shadowed banks.”

“Fac-similes of all the others on the track.”

Paradise Duck.

Flax.

“Glimpses of gigantic peaks.”

“Its towering sentinels.”

Spotted Shag and Chatham Island Shag.

Weka.

“Had a splendid view of the Sutherland Falls.”

“Only a Shelter hut.”

Frost Fish.

“Mitre Peak.”

“Very different from the sound of our imagination.”

“Leaps out into the air right away from the rocks.”

Tiki, a Maori charm.

The Moa.

“Under a diaphanous drapery of thin mist.”

“Sutherland’s House.”

Maori carving.

Trout.

Ngauruhoe, the active volcano.