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kirangi. Yellow masses of sulphur are sticking to the many-coloured 
clay-soil. Black, muddy water flows out of the mud-basin; the 
valley in front of the basin is covered with sulphur and sinter- 
crusts, emitting steam from more than hundred perforations. Here 
also great care is to be taken by the traveller, lest he breaks through 
into boiling mud. The apertures emitting pure steam the natives 
use for cooking. 
The sol fa tar a lLuahiue on Jake Rotoiti. 
Towards evening we reached the southern shore of lake Ro- 
toiti , and pitched our tents near the Maori village Pukeko at the 
peninsula Te mihinga-a-terangi-tapu. 
May 6. — Rotoiti or the “little lake,” is of a very irregular 
shape, from West to East about six or seven miles long, and only 
from one to two miles wide. As regards the character of its scenery 
it is decidedly one of the most beautiful lakes. Picturesque pro- 
montories and peninsulas jutting far into the lake separate the various 
branches and inlets from each other. On the West-side it is separa- 
ted from the Rotorua only by a narrow isthmus scarcely half a 
mile broad , upon which the Pah Morea stands. The Ohua Creek 
flowing from the Rotorua into the Rotoiti , connects the two lakes. 
From the northwestern end of the Rotoiti issues the Okere river, 
which bows into the sea near Maketu on the East-coast. As towards 
