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Whoever has once involuntarily bathed his feet in steaming water 
or boiling mud, will certainly remember it all his life. That 
even more serious accidents are of no rare occurrence, is proved 
by several monuments in the shape of figures carved of wood, 
which are posted in those places where persons have met with an 
untimely death. 
From the Ruapeka Bay the hot springs continue in a south- 
western direction on the foot of the Pukcroa, along the Utuliina 
Creek as far as the small settlement Tarewa. In this direction 
there are moreover two small warm ponds, Kuirau and Timara, fed 
by hot springs, both favorite bathing- places of the natives. Also 
on the South- and East-sides of the Pukcroa steam is seen to ascend 
The Pah Ohhieinutu on the Rotorua. 
from various places. Tabular blocks of silicious deposit, two to three 
feet thick, of a mass resembling milk-opal, lie scattered about over 
the slope and the base of the hill, indicating, that the activity of 
the springs in former periods especially on the East-side of the hill 
was still far more extensive than now, or that the springs change 
their place from time to time. The natives have special springs 
for bathing, for cooking and also for washing. On places, where 
only hot vapour escapes from the ground, they have established 
vapour-baths, and upon heated ground they have warm houses for 
the winter season, of which it is said, that no vermin of any 
