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temperature to lower, and at eight o'clock the water became cool enough 
for bathing. 
This year, however, the prevailing winds have continued to blow from 
the sea, and Tapui has seldom been fit to bathe in. For many years the 
natives living at Koutu have observed the rise and fall of this spring, 
which circumstance has passed into a proverb,—“ Tapui tohu hau "— 
(Tapui the wind pointer). They tell me that they have never known it to 
remain hot for so long a time previously. 
At Whakarewarewa, two miles and three quarters from Ohinemutu, there 
are several hundred mud baths and boiling springs. There are algo 
several fine geysers, which become very active during south-west and 
westerly winds, frequently throwing water 40 to 60 feet. The principal 
ones are named Pohutu and Te Horu. They are rarely active in the 
middle of the day, but generally between seven and nine in the morning, 
and from three to five in the evening, while Whakaha Rua, or the ** Bash- 
ful Geyser," is only in a state of violent ebullition after dark, 
Perhaps the most singular instance of atmospheric influence is in the 
case of Te Tarata, the White Terrace, at Rotomahana. The great crater, 
which is about 90 feet in diameter, is usually full of deep azure blue 
colored water, occasionally boiling up ten or fifteen feet; but when the 
keen south wind, or tonga, blows, the water recedes, and you can descend 
80 feet into the beautifully encrusted crater, which remains empty till the 
wind changes, when it commences to refill at the rate of three or four fect 
per hour, boiling and roaring like a mighty engine. When the crater is 
almost full, grand snow-white columns of water 20 feet in diameter are 
hurled 60 feet into the air. Blue waves of boiling water surge over the shell- 
like lips of the crater, and fall in a thousand cascades over the alabaster 
terraces. 
There are many other springs (for example, Ohaki, near Taupo, Whaka- 
poapoa, at Orakeikorako) which, according to Maori legends, are in- 
fluenced by changes in the wind. There is a great spring called Ketetahi, 
situated on the western slope of Tongariro, and 1800 feet above the level 
of Rotoaira Lake, which is only active during westerly winds, 
About three miles north of the Waikato River at N iho-o-te-Kiore, and in 
apart. They are situated on a spur which slopes down to the Whangapua 
River, 180 feet below, on the sides of which the outflow has formed pretty 
white siliea terraces. The northernmost pool slowly bubbles, and the 
temperature throughout the year ranges from 190? to 200°. In March or 
April the water in the other pool recedes to ten or fifteen fect below the 
