An hour with Dr.Gill was an hour among the stars.

His discoveries in stellar photography are well known.
He showed me the great astronomical clock of the observatory, and I showed him the tin clock on the _Spray_, and we went over the subject of standard time at sea, and how it was found from the deck of the little sloop without the aid of a clock of any kind.

Later it was advertised that Dr.Gill would preside at a talk about the voyage of the _Spray_: that alone secured for me a full house.

The hall was packed, and many were not able to get in.

This success brought me sufficient money for all my needs in port and for the homeward voyage.
[G] Colonel Saunderson was Mr.Kruger's very best friend, inasmuch as he advised the president to avast mounting guns.
After visiting Kimberley and Pretoria, and finding the _Spray_ all right in the docks, I returned to Worcester and Wellington, towns famous for colleges and seminaries, passed coming in, still traveling as the guest of the colony.