- son on the list. At the captain's dinner the captain
made another speech, in which he threw us gorgeous bouquets.
Monday, January 6.—The captain said we should
see land on the morning of the 6th, at 8 o'clock. At
almost exactly that hour, land appeared off the starboard
beam (I take this to mean off to the right).
When land first appears at sea, it is very faint, and is
only distinguished from clouds with difficulty. At
10 A. M. we were in plain sight of Sydney's famous harbor,
and saw other ships entering ahead of us. A half
an hour later, we took on a pilot, and at 11 o'clock we
stopped at quarantine to wait for a doctor. When this
official came, we found him a huge man who would
create a sensation in a museum. After the usual inspection,
the "Sonoma" steamed toward her dock,
eight miles away, and we had an opportunity to see the
harbor. . . . In reading, you are almost constantly
in sight of the statement that Sydney has the finest
harbor in the world, and, after you have seen it, you
are disposed to admit the truth of the statement.
After passing in from the sea, a ship travels eight or
ten miles to the city docks, and the course winds around
through hills almost large enough to be called mountains.
On either side are bays, and everywhere on
top of the hills you see houses with red tile roofs. Sydney
is a city of more than seven hundred thousand,
and has doubled its population in the past twenty-five
years. It is only a question of a few years until Sydney
has a million population, and is destined to be-
