(9) August 18 Lat.33-58 S. Long.156-38 E. Run 298 Quite rough last night and the worst it has been during the whole voyage this morning.Luckily we have gotten used to it so we do not miss a meal.To-morrow morning early we shall raise Sydney Heads.The doctor informed me that this is the breeding season for albatrosses.To-day we saw flocks of little shearwaters and isolated petrels. August 19 Awoke in time to sea the South Head go by.Picked up the doctor at 7 and by 8 we were anchored well up in the 'arbor.Considerable confusion about luggage and we finally got up to the Australia Hotel.Richards first gesture,signa-lizing our advent to New South Wales was to spill a large order of cocktailed oysters on his vest.In the afternoon we called on Burns Philp & Co.,the reputed agents of Mr.Beck.An official named Virtue thought he might be at Gizo but no one was sure of anything.The American Consulate had a letter from Mr.Beck dated sometime in January.G.R.advises sending a wireless to Tu-lagi which will be done to-morrow. Two American physicians on lecturing tours of the Aus-tralasian Universities got on at Auckland(Drs.Cavallo(?) and Bishop);the former introduced us to a Dr.Todd on the pier who is a trustee of the Zoo.He promised to try to put us in touch with some bird men in Sydney. Sydney harbor from Toronga Park Zoo August 20 The Mataram gets in to-morrow.I made an appointment with a dentist to have him take care of a tooth I broke on the Aorangi.After lunch we took a remarkable ferry ride up the Parramatta River.A good deal of nice land under cultivation.On the banks grow numbers of mangrove trees,their roots in the wa-ter and often covered with molluscs,oysters probably.Saw black swans and cormorants of some kind with white throats.At the end of the trip we were conveyed by a ridiculous train to a place called Rosehill,a race course in action.We came in time to see the last race after which we returned to town on a race-track special.Our tickets,presented to us by the ferryman,were