The Chicago: proved to be the winners and the score, 22 to 13, shows the cannonading done on both sides.

This was a good game for both teams to play when the fact is taken into consideration that the players still had their sea legs on and simply shows the good condition that the cricket practice on board the ship had kept them in.
When the "Alameda" left the dock at Auckland that afternoon, a crowd of at least 2,000 people had assembled to see us off.

With Sydney 1,243 miles distant we still had quite a voyage before us.

That night we skirted the coast until after the darkness had fallen and watched the green hills that seemed to rise abruptly from the water's edge.

When the morning came and we once more sought the deck there was no land in sight and nothing to be seen save the watery waste of the ocean that stretched away to the horizon on every side.