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now harvest. We could only with considerable difficulty manage 
to withdraw from the urgent invitations to partake of the feast. 
A canoe conveyed us over the river. On the opposite side the 
way leads over fertile plains to the foot of the mountain. 
Kakejjuku. 
Past the southern foot Hows the Mangawero, a river famous all 
over the country for its abundance of eel. Along the river wo 
noticed numerous eel-traps, in which the natives are said to catch 
sometimes in one night more than a thousand eels. The water of 
the river is a clear mountain-water. Upon a ledge of rocks con- 
sisting of hard trachytic tuff, which extends across the bed, the 
river can be crossed dry-shod. Then begins a gentle slope, which 
encompasses like a wall the conical mountain, and is separated 
from the latter by swamps. This outer wall may be justly con- 
sidered as a tuff-cone or tuff-crater , like those occuring with the 
Auckland volcanoes. The cone itself rises at an angle of 20 de- 
grees. Blocks of a trachydolerite containing numerous pyroxene- 
crystals are scattered along its declivity. A convenient foot-path 
leads upward through the fern-bushes past a spring of 64° Fahr. tem- 
perature. The top is said to have formerly been fortified and 
cultivated; only on the Southwest-side there is a small tract of 
