280 ALL ABOARD FOR SUNRISE LANDS.

“Then he showed us what he called a fan, and said it was handsomer than

anything in Japan. It is really a kind of jelly-fish, and it throws out long,

delicate tentacles. Uncle Nat says he has been in places where jelly-fish send

out a light; he calls it phosphorescence —a bard word—and it lights up the

waters in motion, and he has told breakers that way.

He says the sun-fish that

come ashore in Boston Harbor, after a storm, are relatives of the fan-fish.

“But there, I was going to tell you about Auckland. If you put on your

 

MEDUS OR JELLY-FISH.

specs, you will see
Auckland on the map,
in the northern part
of North Island, New
Zealand, and it is nice
to get among our.own
people again. This
city is in a very nar-
row part of theisland
—not more than six
miles wide—so that
the city has two har-
bors,. and two seas
come tumbling into
them. About a mile
from the city is Mt.
Eden. It used to
spit fire all the time,
auntie, but it is
plugged up now, and
quiet asa lamb. Un-
cle Nat took us in a
carriage to the foot

nf the mountain, where we got out, and then. climbed for about halt
1 hour to the top. It was a splendid view down on Auckland, then across

to the sea, and then off on the mountains.

They call the hole where the fires