xx ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATE XVII. OPPOSITE PAGE 280. 



HOUSE AND GROUP OF MAORIS, NATIVE NEW 



ZEALANDERS. 



Tliis is the scarcely varying model of all the Maori houses, 

 a porch in front and one room back, all under a grass 

 thatched roof, and with more or less carvings on the 

 posts and cornices, according to the skill or rank of the 

 occupant. The Maoris have found it easier to dress 

 themselves in the cheap or cast-off clothes of the English 

 than to make them from their native " flax plant " as 

 they formerly did. Page 315 



PLATE XVIII. OPPOSITE PAGE 296. 



PINK TERRACES AND BOILING FOUNTAIN, NEW 

 ZEALAND. 



Described under White Terraces PLATE XIII. Page 311 



PLATE XIX. OPPOSITE PAGE 312. 



HOT BATH BASINS IN PINK TERRACES, NEW 



ZEALAND. 



The hot water in these basins is about breast deep, and one 

 climbs up from one to another as he requires or can 

 endure the hotter waters. Page 311 



PLATE XX. OPPOSITE PAGE 336. 

 SAILOR BOY "CHARLIE." 



A copy from an old Daguerreotype, and the earliest likeness 

 taken of the one whose latest portrait heads this vol- 

 ume. Page 338 



