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up from the hotel to see how we had fared, and we all went down to the corrugated- 

 iron portion of the dwelling-house to see about the rest, and found a Maori woman 



— old Mary of the Mu — and my sister Ina. It appears that when the building fell 

 in, old Mary snatched my sister into the bedroom, and they crawled under the wash- 

 stand; after a while, finding no more mud fell on them, they endeavored to push 

 away the stuff that was covering them. In this they succeeded, and raised them- 

 selves upright, awaiting their fate, and continued there in the dark until 6:30 o'clock 

 in the morning. 



"At daylight we were reunited by Mr. Lundins breaking the window and getting 

 the native woman and my sister out. 



"The whole party, including Mr. MacRae's people, listened for any sound to show 

 that any of the rest of the family were alive in the collapsed corrugated-iron build- 

 ing; but hearing no sound, and seeing at least 8t feet of mud on the debris of the 

 fallen roof, we all went down towards the lower village where we found everybody 

 leaving the settlement." 



Upon further examining the ruins of the building, it was found that Mr. Hag- 

 gard and two of the children were dead, and that Mrs. Haggard was severely injured 



— a baby which she held in her arms being one of the dead. 



To every reflecting mind, this account of the destruction of the Pink and White 

 Terraces, so nearly akin to our own in the National Park, suggests the thought that 

 some day the same fate may befall them. The general accepted theory that the 

 volcanic forces of the earth are dying out, does not receive confirmation by the re- 

 newed activity of the last few months. The Japanese eruption a short time ago, 

 and the one herein described, and later and nearer home, at Charleston, would rather 

 indicate that this old accepted theory might, with due respect to things ancient, be 

 reconsidered if not entirely reversed. 



