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A USTA'.-I L. ISL 1 ILL i 'STRA 7 EL '. 



Hochstetter the Mcr etc la 

 dlacc of New Zealand. 

 The entire course of the 

 Tasinan River, from the 

 glaciers to Pukaki, a dis- 

 tance of twenty-two miles, 

 is perfectly straight, and 

 there is only one slight 

 bend in the Godley, which 

 is of about the same length. 

 Twenty miles farther on 



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from Pukaki lies the Ben 



Ohau Lake, measuring twelve miles long by 

 two and a half miles broad, nearly surrounded 

 by bush, and with much clearer waters than 

 either of its larger neighbours. The tourist's 

 course, however, does not lie in this direction. 

 Crossing the ferry at Pukaki, which is worked 

 by a wire rope, he starts on the last stage 

 of his journey to the Mount Cook Hermitage, 

 thirty-eight miles distant. After leaving the 

 Lake, he passes on the left the Hen Ohau 

 and Rhoborough Downs Stations, and from 

 the summit of the Downs the Lake is again 

 brought into view, its margin approached by 

 a very devious course, and its shores skirted 

 for another five miles until the Glentanner is 

 reached, at the head of the Lake and thirteen 

 miles distant from the ferry. Now opens up 

 the entire amplitude of the extensive valley 

 of the Tasman, and as the' traveller passes 

 over a succession of low downs, mountain after 

 mountain marches into sight, presenting a 

 continuously successive series of kaleidoscopic 



pictures. It is not until 

 he has passed the present 

 Glentanner homestead. 

 twelve miles from the 

 head of the Lake, that 

 the tourist obtains a first 

 correct glimpse of the 

 Great Tasman Glacier, 

 and, mounting the downs 

 which lie between him 



AN AVALANCHE IN THE SOUTHERN ALPS. 



