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the height of 2100 feet. The summit is mostly wooded; nevertheless 
we found some points, from which we had a good view North and 
South. On the height above and in the midst of the woods we 
found potatoe - fields and native huts. It is an old Maori custom 
dating from the times of war, to establish at remote and less ac- 
cessible points, usually in large forests, stations and plantings, upon 
which the people might fall back in case of need. So there are 
also travelling -stations , lying off* the road upon hidden paths and 
known only to the tribe which has established them. 
About noon we set out from Orakeikorako. Te Hori con- 
ducted us across the river in quiet water at a passage below the 
rapids, giving us a proof of his admirable dexterity, as he had first 
to steer the canoe from a place farther up the river through the 
eddying and foaming rapids. We stood on the bank and shouted 
a loud enthusiastic bravo to the bold chief as he dashed in the 
little craft through the frightfully eddying floods. 
Through a small side -valley, called Rotoparu, we ascended 
the right bank of the Waikato, crossed a fern hill and came into 
the Rotoreka valley, a dreary and swampy plain with here and 
there an isolated Ti tree. Towards the West the valley is bor- 
dered by low, wood-less hills; towards the East, a high rocky bluff 
ascends almost vertical, extending in the direction of N. 24° E., 
in a straight line. Above the steep precipice numerous rugged 
cliffs tower up, and in the middle of the rocky wall a high, wooded 
peak Pairoa (or Paeroa) projects towards the West. After this 
prominent peak I have called the whole extent of the bluff the 
Pairoa range; and it is easily to be seen, that along this range an 
immense dislocation took place, that the almost perpendicular western 
side of the range is caused by a “fault“ corresponding to a deep 
fissure in the earth-crust, and that the low-lands between the Pairoa 
range East and the Patetere-plateau West were produced by a break- 
ing or sinking of a large part of the volcanic table-land. In a most 
remarkable manner the fissures , and the lines of dislocation are also 
indicated by the numerous hot springs issuing along the Pairoa 
range, at the foot of the precipice, on its slopes, and even above 
