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48 boys of different age. The church is a pretty specimen of a 
Maori building; its walls neatly plaited of various vegetable pro- 
ducts of the country, 1 and its door-posts and gable-beams gayly 
painted. At 1 1 o’clock divine service commenced. Two and two, 
the school -children, all neatly and cleanly dressed, came march- 
Churcli of the missionary station at the Taupiri. 
ing to church in a long procession. A large number of men 
and women from the adjoining villages and settlements followed 
them. The service consisted of a hymn, prayers, and a sermon 
delivered by a native with much spirit and lively action. Clmrch- 
service over, I witnessed the Sabbath-school exercises, and was not 
little astonished at the geographical acquirements of those Maori- 
children. They very readily traced to me, upon a map of Europe 
without names, the course of the Danube pointing out the situation 
of Vienna; and quite correctly answered my questions as to the 
active volcanoes of Europe. At 2 o’clock dinner was had in the 
common dining-room. The Sunday-fore consisted of potatoes and 
1 The favorite material of the Maoris for building purposes is Baupo ( Typhd ), 
a kind of flag or bulrush, which grows in great abundance in swampy places. The 
roof is generally made of loetoe {Armulo') a very coarse cutting grass, that grows on 
the edges of swamps and creeks, whilst the necessary sticks are provided from Kiekic 
( Freycinctia ), a liana, the stems of which can be employed like Bengal cane. 
The whole edifice is merely tied together with flax. 
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