-An Experienced "Whip."--
Volcanic Hills.--A New Zealand Forest.--A Strangely Afflicted
Boy.--Lake Rotorua.--Ohinemutu.--Funeral of a Maori Chief.--
Wailing and Weeping.--Moonlight on the Lake.--Wonderland.--
Spouting Geysers and Boiling Pools.--Savage Mode of Slaughter.
--Maori Houses.--Chivalry and Cannibalism.--Savage and
Civilized Life 365-385

CHAPTER XVII.

The Maori Dog.--A Romantic Island.--Sinking of a Maori Fort.
--Volcanic Destruction.--A Country of Boiling Springs.--
Idleness.--A Lazy Race of Savages.--Native Religion.--A
Fitful Geyser.--Sophia, the Famous Guide.--A Funeral Dance.
--The "Haka" Performance.--Maori Improvidence.--Rubbing Noses.
--Native Babies.--Church-Going and Card-Playing.--The King's
Country.--Eloquent Aborigines.--A Sanitarium.--Sulphur Point.
--Future of New Zealand 386-405

UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS.

CHAPTER I.

Journey across the American Continent.--The Giant City of
the West.--A Chinese Community.--Embarking for a Long
Sea-voyage.--About Ocean Birds.--Navigating the
Pacific.--Peculiarities of Life at Sea.--Curiosities of the
Deep.--Ambergris.--City of Honolulu.--An Island
Paradise.--Early Paganism at Hawaii.--Wholesale Human
Sacrifices.--Royalty at the Race-course.--Not a Kingly
Monarch.

When the author resolved upon a journey to the Antipodes he was in
London, just returned from Norway, Sweden, and Russia, and contemplated
reaching the far-away countries of Australia and New Zealand by going
due east through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and
then crossing the Indian Ocean. But this is not the nearest route to
Oceania. The English monthly mail for that part of the world is
regularly forwarded from Liverpool to Boston or New York, thence across
the continent of America, and by steamboat from San Francisco. These
mail steamers touch at the Sandwich Islands, after which the course lies
southwest into the island-dotted latitudes of the widespread South
Pacific. Auckland, in New Zealand, is reached by this route in
thirty-seven days from London; and Sydney, in Australia, five days
later,--the two great English colonies being separated by over a
thousand miles of unbroken ocean. The latter route was adopted by the
writer of these pages as being both more comfortable and more
expeditious. Having