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two tribes in 1884. During the revolt of 1864 many renounced Christianity, and 

 founded a new religion in which Christian mythology and ancestral worship were 

 strangely blended. The Hau-hau sect, as it was called from the cries of grief or 

 ecstasy uttered at the public prayer- meetings, has not yet entirely disappeared, 

 and a few of its adherents are still found in scattered groups in the King's 

 Countr3\ 



This region, some 10,000 square miles in extent, comprises a large part of 

 North Island, west of Lake Taupo. The two lofty mounts, Ruapehu and Tongariro, 

 were till recently included within its limits, together with the seaboard between 

 Port Aotea and the north foot of Mount Taranaki. Alarmed by the incessant 



Fig. 190. — King's Cotintet. 

 Scale 1 : 2,000,000. 



Easb oFG-eenwich 



Depths. 



0to25 

 Fathoms. 



25 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



.30 Miles. 



encroachments of the white squatters, the natives assembled in congress in 1854, 

 and resolved thenceforth to sell no land at any price, and even prevent the Euro- 

 peans from penetrating into their domain. Since that time conflicts have taken 

 place, British troops have crossed the frontier, and sundry tracts have been 

 detached from the territory. Nevertheless this Native Reserve still constitutes a 

 well defined region, till recently almost inaccessible to explorers unprovided with 



