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by the miners, but now a much-frequented rural retreat. The few travellers bound 

 for the almost uninhabited Stewart Island embark at Invercargill. 



The small groups of islands not subject to the administrative system of the 

 mainland have a collective area of 1,170 miles, with a total population of about 



Fig. 197. — Chatham Island. 

 Scale 1 : 900,000. 



six hundred souls. Of these groups the largest is Chatham, or Warekauri, whose 

 capital, Waitangi, lies on Petre Bay, an inlet on the south-west side ; here are the 

 headquarters of the Maori invaders of the island. Pitt, or Butaritari, south of the 

 larger island, is a basalt table 600 feet high, mostly overgrown with scrub and 



