CHAPTER IY. 
The Waipa and the West Coast. 
The Taupiri. — The Middle \Yaikato-Basin. — Keeping the Sabbath. — Waikato aud 
Waipa. — Residence of the Maori King. — The chief Takerei. — Terraces. — Whatawhata. 
— The Wesleyan Mission station Kopua. — A Maori- wedding* — Kakepuku. — To 
Whaingaroa. — Whaingaroa Harbour. — The township of Raglan. — Mount Karioi. — The 
Aotea Harbour. — The Kawhia Harbour. — Ammonites and Belemnites. — The New Zea- 
land Helvetia. — A Northumberlander. — Roads to the Waipa. — The bush. — Back to 
the Waipa. 
March 12. — The Taupiri, as viewed from the Mission station, 
is a steep conical hill with a sloping-flat top, which rises immediately 
on the opposite, the right or East-bank of the Waikato, forming the 
most prominent point upon the boundary between the lower and 
the middle Waikato Basin. We crossed the river, and through ferns 
and bush reached the top in the space of an hour. My sanguine 
expectations of a brilliant prospect were not disappointed. . Only 
to the North-east the continuation of the range obstructs the pro- 
spect into the distance. In all other directions the eye can freely 
rove far over the land. In clear weather even the Tongariro and 
the snow-capt peak of the Ruapahu arc visible in the South. Al- 
though we were denied this pleasure, the sky being somewhat 
cloudy, yet the view of the adjoining country alone sufficed to 
impart to me an idea of New Zealand other than I had hitherto 
entertained. 
Here I beheld for the first time an extensive low-land spread- 
ing into distant mountain-cones and remote mountain-chains. I 
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