as Taki-a-Capiri. This canoe is over eighty feet in length and could carry at least a hundred warriors. It was constructed by culling out the inside of a tall tree and fitting, piece by piece, the overlapping gun- wales. Such craft as these would take as long as three years for the Maori to build assisted by all their women, who made and bound the cord that holds upper- structure to the hull. There was a fine collection of birds and fishes in the museum, but they were so confused with other material; a bust of Napoleon, an old gun, a case of butterflies, etc., that it was hard to make much out of it. They will be much better off when they can move into their new quarters. We went for lunch at the only Americanized spot in Auckland, a sandwich shop. Here there were lettuce and tomato sandwiches, pork and beans, pastry and cups of coffee. It seemed for a moment as if we must be home in New Haven with the eminent marble of Harry's Smoke Shop bearing the force of our elbows. In the afternoon we took a street car to the Auckland Zoo. This, for its size, is the most happily constructed and well-laid out zoo I have ever seen (not that I have spent all my life examining zoos) and every animal, no matter how miserable he really is, looks as though he was the most satisfied and wealthy creature in the world. There was a large elephant, two hippos, ten lions, leopards both black and spotted, a Bengal tiger, eight different kinds of eagles, and a host of temperate