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lake near Ngae are formed by vertical sandstone and pumice- 
stone crags, 20 or 30 feet high, which arc more and more under- 
washed by the heavy surf raised by West- and South -West- 
winds. I came just in time, to see Te Pini’s canoe, with my 
travelling -companions on board, bravely struggling through the 
waves of the lake lashed by the howling gale , and landing at 
length in safety. 
After one hour’s repose and after a repeated solemn farewell 
to Te Pini we set out from Waiohewa, taking a Northeast course 
along a marshy valley, for the purpose of visiting the great Ngawhas 
or solfataras situated upon the pumicestone- plateau between the 
lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti. They are a peculiar group for them- 
selves. Comparable to hideous carbuncles on the surface of a body, 
those solfataras — holes, rotten more or less deeply into the ground, 
surrounded with yellowish-white crusts, and diffusing an offensive 
odour — lie bedded among the green fern-lands. Their list opens 
with Tikitere, not merely a single pool of sulphur, but a whole 
valley of solfataras, bubbling mud-pools and hot springs. In the 
middle is a water-basin, 50 to 60 feet in diameter, called Huritini; 
it seethes and boils and bubbles in all corners, the turbid and muddy 
water sometimes rising to a height of 12 to 15 feet. Pumiccstone- 
sand cemented with silicious deposits, sulphur-crusts and black mud 
form a very suspicious soil around, which can only Pc stepped upon 
with the greatest caution. The atmosphere is impregnated with 
sulphuretted hydrogen and sulphurous acid; dense clouds of steam 
whirling up from the dismal haunt. North of Tikitere are the sol- 
fataras Karapo, Te Korokoro, Te Waikari and To Terata; next, 
Harakeke-ngunguru , Tihipapa and Papakiore ; and finally Ruahine. 
Ruahino (from rua, hole, and hine, wife) has the appearance 
of an active crater. The crater-shaped basin lies on a declivity 
sloping towards lake Rotoiti; at its bottom black mud may be seen 
boiling, which by the rising and bursting steam-bubbles is sputtered 
up into the air to a height of several feet. The column of steam 
ascending here is designated by the natives Te Wata-Kai-a-Puna- 
kirangi, meaning the place where the meal is hung up for Puna- 
