Carried Out to Die.

"We rounded Cape Horn 35 days out from New Zealand, and soon after ran into warmer weather. Up to that time I had never left my berth, and had been living on a little gruel brought to me twice a day by one of the ladies. The agonies of those 35 days, cooped up in a dark cabin, sea-sick, and with salt water wetting everything, were awful, and I became a mere skeleton. One fine day the captain carried me out and laid me on the sunny deck and said: "It will be better for him to die out here than down below." I did not, however, as the sunshine and fresh air soon restored me, and the Wellington doctor's alternative came true—the voyage had cured me."

the Ballarat had a slow voyage after passing the Horn. She was carried by the north-east trade winds to within 60 miles of the North American coast, and the passengers could plainly hear the thunder of heavy guns. That was in the days of the American Civil War, and the people on the Ballarat decided that somepage 203 big battle was in progress, but they afterwards learned that the salvos were being fired by the artillery to celebrate the end of hostilities.

The record of the Ballarat's voyages to New Zealand reads:—