384 LAKE TERA-WERA. [PART II 



is formed. It is rapid, but narrow and serpentine. 

 From its banks issue numerous hot-springs, and 

 another flight of siliceous steps ascends the border- 

 ing hills. Into the Kai-waka a cold stream also 

 discharges itself, which is the outlet of two smaller 

 lakes on the right shore, called Rotu-Makariti (cold 

 lakes). When we came into the Tera-wera lake, 

 the shores became steep and rocky (trachitic). To 

 our right there rose a curious mountain consisting 

 of several truncated cones, and exactly resembling a 

 fortification, as the upper borders of the cones were 

 fringed all around with perpendicular rocks. This 

 hill is called Motunui-arangi. The rocky shores of 

 Lake Tera-wera are lined with pohutukaua-trees ; 

 other vegetation also overhangs the cliffs and peeps 

 out of the fissures of the rock. I was someAvhat 

 surprised to find the pohutukaua-tree (Metrosideros 

 tomentosa) on this inland lake, as it is a tree which 

 I never before found but on the sea-shore. This 

 may perhaps be regarded as another confirmation of 

 the theory that the lakes which run in a continued 

 chain from Taupo to the eastern coast are the re- 

 mains of a former arm of the sea, and have been 

 shut up from it by an uplifting of the land. In the 

 summer, when the pohutukaua-trees are covered 

 with their red blossoms, the scenery at this lake 

 must be most beautiful. 



We came to a small native settlement in a nook 

 of the rocks, which hung over it on all sides. In 

 this little bight were several warm springs, which 



