80 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. IV. 
CHAPTER IV. 
Voyage to Wanganui — Too late for selection of Lands — Police 
Magistrate — Jail — Manufacture of Hams and Bacon — Departure 
for Taupo — Ascend the Wanganui — Curious Missionary Chief — 
Rigorous discipline — Quarrel between Natives — Speech of a 
Youth— Scenery— The Pass in " the Place of Cliffs"— Giddy 
ascent of Cliff" — Monument — My Attendants — Baggage — Tribu- 
. tary of the Wanganui — Slow Progress — Forced March — Towai, 
or " Black Birch"— High Table Plains— Rain— Tonga Eiro 
Mountains — Legend of Taranaki — View to South-West — Roto 
Aera, or Lake " Yes, indeed " — Rest — Lake Taupo — Boiling 
' Springs — A fine Chief — Villages on the Lake — Visit to 
Heuheu — Feast — Haka, or Dance — Waitamd Pa — Well-be- 
haved Natives — Proceedings for Damages — An Artist in Tatu — 
The Process — Natives play Draughts — Local attraction of the 
Compass — Mr. Blackett — Journey from the Bay of Plenty to 
Taupo — Volcanic District — Farewell to Heuheu — ^His Speech — 
' Tapu on the Summit of a Mountain — Mr. Dandeson Coates — 
'. Distinction between Religious Respect and Landed Rights — 
Native Irony — Return from Taupo — Skirmish — Sacred Sand — 
Sulphureous River — Effect of Sunrise — Rolling Ranges— Flax 
Gardens. 
We lay at Kapiti in the Gem two days ; having en- 
gaged to pick up some of the goods belonging to TVan- 
ganui settlers which had been wrecked in the Jewess, 
and since brought over and stored on Rauperahas 
island by the agent of Captain Mayhew. 
One morning we enjoyed the sight of some spirited 
whale-hunts ; four fish having been taken in the course 
of an hour, between Kapiti and the main. 
IJaffling N. W. winds, with intervals of calm, and 
the tub-like qualities of the schooner, detained us for 
seven or eight days more before we reached Tf^anganui. 
At length I steered her safely in, one calm morning at 
