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■was forbidden to enter this part of the North Island up to 

 within the last few years, but the Maori has now allowed a 

 road to be surveyed therein. Hence the allusion to driving 

 the Maru-iwi towards the setting sun. 



For nearly ten years I resided on a property known 

 as " Glengarrie," situated northward of Napier, and it 

 may be about half-way between the latter place and Titi- 

 o-kura, the place mentioned by Mr. Elsdon Best as passed 

 by the Maru-iwi in their flight from the Maori of the 

 north. Attached to the Glengarrie land was, in my time, 

 a part named "Glenshea," which the Maoris have told me 

 they called " Kuri-paka" (the brown dog). (A chestnut 

 horse was once pointed out to me as of the colour 

 paka.) At this place there are what I may term perpen- 

 dicular walls of highly w^ter-worn and polished boulders 

 about the size of a man's fist, intermixed with others slightly 

 smaller. These boulders are themselves of a blackish colour, 

 but, being cemented about by ferruginous particles, the tout 

 ensemble is as of a red conglomerate rock, very hard and solid 

 in texture. I have since wondered if there was some mistake 

 in interpreting the Maori saying, and that possibly kiri j^aka 

 (the reddish-brown or burnt-looking shingle) might be the 

 name of this place. This wall of conglomerate runs along 

 the northerly face of the ridge, and is mostly covered by 

 the surface-soil on the flat top of the ridge, showing out 

 below after the manner of a ha-ha or sunken fence in Ens- 

 land, giving some 8 ft. to 15 ft. of a perpendicular exposure, 

 when it is again hidden by the soil of the sloping land below. 

 This wall is here sufficiently formidable to any person travel- 

 ling on a dark night ; and the more so in the condition in 

 which I first saw it, when the land was hidden under fern and 

 tutu, breast high, and often over a man's head — but this is 

 merely a preliminary sketch, and to record the Maori name of 

 the place. 



Along the westward boundary of this land flows the Ma- 

 nga-one Eiver, a tributary of the Tutae-kuri. This divides 

 it from land then called "Pa-toka" (the pa, or fort, of the 

 rock). The Manga-one is on both sides mostly hidden away 

 under gigantic precipices. At some few places (mostly where 

 the side streams flow in) the descent is more gradual, but 

 many of these side streams are confined between even worse 

 cliffs than those of the main stream. Many of these cliffs are 

 formed by the before-mentioned conglomerate rock, nearly as 

 hard as iron, standing on a great depth of papa rock. The 

 lower, being the softer rock and more easily weathered, is 

 mostly overhung by the upper strata. Now, hide away these 

 truly awesome depths by an upper coating of the tall fern 

 and tutu (wliich held sway until the improving hand of the 



