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one day for Nelson, so that there was no chance of taking any of the coach-drives, and we did not even visit Cable Bay to see the cable station.

Our train left early on the following morning for Motupiko, where we were to join the coach, and ran through a new Kent, past hop-gardens, orchards, country lanes hawthorn-hedged, and neat homesteads with their haystacks, ploughed fields, and dairy cows. There were occasional glimpses of the sea, too, but the snow-capped hills and the graceful tree-fern and arrogant cabbage-palm were always there to remind us that home and Kent were very far away!