Unclimbed mountains, and many a nameless stream await young adventurers in the far south of the West Coast. From Martin’s Bay, “ the Ultima Thule of inhabited South Westland,” a settler recently made a lone hand trip down to the northern side of Milford Sound. He took a fortnight, and (writes “ Tangi•wai ” in the New Zealand Railways Magazine) is the first man to make the journey. This modern explorer, Mr Eric James, found new rivers, new lakes, new gorges, and canyons and peaks. He saw a strange bird, which he has not been able to identify, from his observations and inquiries, with any known birds of these parts. One river he forded had a bed of pure marble.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 34
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