. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. time passed agreeably, as there was a good library on board, andeach member of the party tried to do his share towards entertainingthe rest. Stories of sea and land, of moving accidents by flood andfield, and discussions ujjon scientific, social, and all other imaginabletopics, served to beguile the hours and shorten the distance between theHawaii
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. time passed agreeably, as there was a good library on board, andeach member of the party tried to do his share towards entertainingthe rest. Stories of sea and land, of moving accidents by flood andfield, and discussions ujjon scientific, social, and all other imaginabletopics, served to beguile the hours and shorten the distance between theHawaiian and the Marquesas groups. The north-east trades carried the Pera almost to the equator, thencame a period of calm in a torrid temperature that drove everybody tothe shelter of the double awning over the deck, and made them sigh forcooler latitudes. Heavy clothing was at a discount, and the lightestgarments were found more than sufficient. Social rules were suspended,and pajamas were worn altogether, except at dinner-time, when lightsuits of linen took their place. Dinner was served on deck beneath theawning, and the ice-machine was kept in constant action to supply icefor the use of the sweltering travellers. Happily this state of affairs. ^fe^tPS, l^^S^L^ BELOW DECK IX THE TROPICS. did not last long; as soon as the Pera entered the calm belt the funnelwas hoisted, fires were started, the equator was crossed triumphantly,and the yacht in due time caught the south-east trades, and was oncemore turned into a sailing-craft. As they left the equator behind them the north star disappeared 52 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. below the horizon, and the Southern Cross, that magnificent constella-tion of the antarctic heavens, came into view. Frank regretted thatthey could not look at it with a powerful telescope, when he learnedfrom the captain of the Pera that there is a brilliant cluster of stars inthe centre of the Cross, invisible to the unassisted eye, and only revealedby a s
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