Her Seventy-Five Day Passage.

Touching the remarkable outward passage in 1874, Captain Hill reported having left London on May 9th. The ship was detained in the Channel by light westerly weather until May 14th, on which day she left the Lizard. After leaving the land she encountered a continuance of light and moderate westerly winds, and so was jammed away to the eastward, and had to pass between the Canary Islands and the mainland. On May 26th, when a little south of the Canaries she picked up the north-east trades, which were steady, and on June 5th she met the south-east trades. The equator was crossed on the following day. Westerly winds then found the ship and sent her bounding along under a press of canvas.

The ship ran her easting down in about the 47th parallel, and was due south of Cape Leeuwin on July 14th. Three days after that the breeze freshened to a tremendous gale from southwest, and raised a high and very confused sea. A great deal of water found its way on board, and the decks may be said to have been awash during the three days the gale lasted. The ship was kept before it under a press of sail, and on the whole made good weather of it. On July 22nd the high land of Stewart's Island was sighted, and the ship, having moderate westerly weather along the coast, reached Port Chalmers on July 23rd, 75 days port to port, or 69 days land to land.