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Contents.
A rude awaking—An enraged Amazon—"Too hot" for the thief—We start for the Terraces—Lake Tarawera—A merry boat's crew—The Devil's Rock—Native delicacies—The landing-place—First view of the Terraces—Beauty indescribable—The great basin empty—Pluto's foghorn—The majesty of nature—Wonder upon wonder—The mud cones—Devil's Hole—The Porridge Pot—Devil's Wife—Poor Ruakini
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Lunch—An ogre—Bush rats—Kate's "familiar"—The Pink Terraces—Sacrilegious scribblers—Nature's masterpiece—Words too tame for such a sight—A Sybarite's bath—Back to Wairoa—The waterfall—Fern-hunting—Adieu to Wairoa
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Traits of native character—The wharepuni or common dormitory—The processes of civilization—Foul feeding—Causes of disease—Attempts at reform in social customs—The primitive carving-knife—The Hau Haus—The Urewera country, the Tyrol of New Zealand—Captain Mair's description of the hillmen—The Urewera women—Some queer facts—Extraordinary pigs—A whimsical scene—Then and now, a sharp contrast—A stirring episode of the old war—Snapping of the old links—A Maori chief's letter
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The s.s. Rotomahana—Opotiki, a military settlement—A sensible system of emigration—Faults of the Sydney system—A chance for capital—The town of Gisborne—Napier—Public spirit—Projected harbour works—Napier, the Malta of the southern seas—An attenuated army
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The famous Hawke's Bay pastures—Hastings—Maori farmers—Mountain torrents—A backwoods clearing
