DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



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In addition to the lakes which already have been referred to, there is quite a chain 

 of others that are well worth visiting. Rotorua is separated only by a slender neck of 

 low-lying land from its companion Rotoiti, and not far beyond it we may make acquain- 

 tance with Rotoehu, which has been compared to "a sapphire set in emeralds;" and the 

 deep blue Lake Rotoma, shaped like a Maltese cross and bordered with densely-wooded 



MAORI GIRLS 1IATI1IXG AT WHAKAREWAREWA. 



shores. Rotoehu, by the way, boasts a soda-water spring on its margin, and a Maori settle- 

 ment named Taheke. A two-hours' walk through the forest from Rotoma brings the visitor 

 to Lake Okatina, and the roacl thence leads, by way of a gully, to Lake Tarawera, in 

 the immediate vicinity of which lies the lovely little Lake Okarika, in whose surroundings 



