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THE VBUISE UF TEE 'GUBAQOA: 



high crag, wliich appeared to me composed of coarse con- 

 glomerate. I then -went as for as a cascade, which had 

 nothing remarkable in it, and clambered up its rocks in 

 search of ferns. 



Mr. Foljambe in his rambles was fortunate enough to meet 

 with a fine waterfoll, of which we have here his sketch, 

 about a mile and a half from the settlement, which consisted 

 of a succession of falls terminating in deep, narrow pools. 

 Natives were found jumping down the falls from one pool 



PO0I£ AT THE WATKUFALL OF WAITOBA. 



to another, the jumps varying fi-om twenty to thirty feet in 

 height. The sport seemed so attractive that Mr. Foljambe 

 and his friends were tempted to join in it, and pleasant sport 

 they found it. 



In many places I saw plantations of taro wintered by a rill 

 whicli comes out of the cascade. To my great surprise, I 

 saw no birds. The path I was following was stony and 

 formed of lava. Gorges and vallevs covered throughout with 



