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they refused the use of a canoe for crossing the river near the 
village; next, they would not allow us to put up our tents. After 
a long and tedious talking to and fro, we at last carried both 
points; we had, however, to put up with the disagreeable necessity 
of fasting for to-day , the teacher of the place forbidding most 
rigidly the sale of provisions. Those Maoris seemed to esteem 
more highly the commandments of their missionaries, than the 
words of their Lord and Master: “The Sabbath was made for man, 
and not man for the Sabbath.” It was, however, the first and 
last time that I undertook to travel on the Sabbath-day in New 
Zealand. 
April 4. — It was not until to-day, that the inhabitants of 
Mangawhitikau grew more sociable and friendly. Already before 
break' of day we had bought a fat pig from them , and were thus 
enabled to indemnify ourselves at breakfast for the involuntary 
fast day. 
The Mangapu divides near the settlement into its three con- 
stituent branches. The eastern is called Mangarama, the middle 
Mangapu, and the western Mangawhitikau. At their confluence, 
situated 230 feet above the level of the sea, the valley opens to a 
basin, shut in all around by towering limestone-rocks. The Manga- 
rama flows through a large swamp clothed with Kahikatea woods; 
the other two little streams, after a long subterraneous passage, 
suddenly issue from under the limestone rocks close by the village. 
The place, where the Mangapu issues forth, bears the characteristic 
name of Tenganui, long throat. The subterraneous course of the 
river is said to be four miles long. At a low water-level the na- 
tives, with torches (kapara), made of the resinous wood of the 
Eimu pine, crawl far into the underground channel for the pur- 
poses of catching craw-fish. The temperature of the water at the 
outlet of the river is 53 0 Falir. The river before its disappearing 
underground is said to ran through a romantic , narrow gully in 
the limestone-range Mahihinui , by the Pah Pehiop. The course 
of the Mangawhitikau is similar to that described. It runs close 
by the Pah Nikau through the narrow, rocky ravine Huruhuru, 
