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considerably. To the Hverjar belong, for example, the celebrated 
springs of Haukadal, the great Geyser and the Strokkur, and with 
these the Puias of New Zealand correspond. The word Puia is 
especially used in the Taupo country, to designate the intermittent, 
geyser-like fountains of Tokanu, of Orakeikorako on the Waikato 
and of Whakarewarewa 1 on Lake Rotorua. Puia has moreover the 
more general meaning of crater or volcano, and is applied to active 
as well as extinct volcanoes. Namur upon Iceland are the n on- 
intermittent springs, such as the solfataras of Krisuvik and Reykj all- 
lid, having no periodical eruptions; and the same are in New Zea- 
land the Ngawhas, a term especially used for non -intermittent 
springs, for the solfataras and sulphurous hot springs on the Roto- 
mahana, Rotorua, and Rotoiti. Finally the springs suited to bath- 
ing-purposes, the water of which never reaches the boiling-point, 
and all naturally warm baths are called Waiariki, corresponding to 
the Laugar of Iceland. 2 
A visit to the Puias, Ngawhas, and Waiarikis was the main 
object of my journey from Lake Taupo to the East Coast. I had 
the choice of two routes; either the direct route on the right bank 
of the Waikato across the Kaingaroa plain to lake Rotomahana (two 
or three days journey); or the road along the left bank via Oru- 
anui to Orakeikorako, and after here passing the Waikato, along 
the Pairoa range to lake Tarawera, three or four days journey. 
Dieffenbach in 1841 had taken the former route; 3 I therefore, chose 
1 One of the intermittent fountains of Whakarewarewa is specially named 
Te Puia. 
2 W. Preyer and Dr. F. Zickel, Reise nach Island 1862. p. 69. 
3 The most note-worthy points on this route are the fumaroles and solfataras 
on the western foot of Mt. Tauhara, at the brinks of which sulphur and alum are 
deposited. One of them is called Waikore, another, whose steam-column is visible 
at a great distance, Parakiri (the skinner, peeler). Farther on, at the N. W. foot 
of the Tauhara, lies the Rotokawa, bitter-lake, one mile in length from North to 
South, and a-balf mile wide. The water has a strong taste of alum. At the North- 
end of the lake dense clouds of steam ascend continually from a number of solfa- 
taras lying there. A third group of springs is on the right bank of the Waikato 
about five miles North of the junction of the Pueto, among them the solfatara Ipu- 
kaihimarama and the fountain Te Kohaki. Farther North the road passes by the 
Maunga Kakaramea, which is steaming up to its very top, to the Rotomahana, 
