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the whole time, and his face was covered with blood. 
The worst part of the pain seems to be that endured a 
day or two after the operation, when every part of the 
wound gathers, and the face is swollen considerably. 
The staining liquid is made of charcoal, I rarely saw a 
case in which the scars were not completely well in a 
week. 
I once ascended the isolated " Sandfly Mountain," of 
which I have spoken above ; and was much surprised 
to observe the extraordinary effect which some local 
attraction caused on the compass. Tauhara, the 
high mountain at the north end of the lake, bore 
from here 17° more easterly than it did from Pukawoy 
which is three or four miles to the west of the " Sand- 
" fly." Of course, no sketch of the country, laid down 
entirely from compass bearings, could lay any claim to 
correctness.* ,«j 
I was much surprised to see a slight hoar frost on 
Christmas morning. The wind was blowing from the 
direction of Tonga-Riro ; and this, at our elevation of 
some 1000 or 1500 feet above the level of the sea, 
doubtless produced the unseasonable cold. 
On the 29th of December, two gentlemen arrived in 
a canoe from the eastern shore of the lake, having 
walked from Matata in the Bay of Plenty in four days. 
* I think this accounts for the inaccuracy of the map in Mr. 
BidwilFs ' Rambles,' in which Coteropo, which, from his de- 
scription, evidently means Terapa, is placed in the S.E. instead 
of the S.W. corner. A native, on being asked the name of a 
place or person, will almost invariably prefix the particle ko to 
the name, and thus ko Terapa might easily have been set down as 
Coteropo, Mr. Bidwill's description of the hot springy in the 
mountain gully behind " Coteropo," exactly agrees with those at 
the back of Terapa in the S. W. corner of the lake ; and there is 
no large collection of hot springs all round the lake except at that 
place and on the flat near Tokanu. 
