. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. iture; the Miro, which has a beautiful red fruiton which pigeons grow fat; and the Kawaka, which has a remarka-ble leaf and a durable wood. There is a great varietyof tree-ferns, some of themreaching a height of forty feet,and a diameter of twelve inch-es or more. The most tropicalof all the trees of I*^ew Zealandis the Nikau, which is the onlyrep
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. iture; the Miro, which has a beautiful red fruiton which pigeons grow fat; and the Kawaka, which has a remarka-ble leaf and a durable wood. There is a great varietyof tree-ferns, some of themreaching a height of forty feet,and a diameter of twelve inch-es or more. The most tropicalof all the trees of I*^ew Zealandis the Nikau, which is the onlyrepresentative of the palm fam-ily. The ferns are more trop-ical than the trees, and addvery much to the beauty ofthe forest, though they impedelocomotion in many places. Asfor fruit-trees, there are veryfew indigenous to the coun-try, but nearly everything thatgrows in the United States orEngland flourishes, and theyhave many things here thatare strangers to us at home. Peaches, apples, apricots, figs, oranges, strawberries, pears, and otherfruits are abundant in their seasons, and some of them reach a lux-uriance and perfection surpassing that of the countries whence theycame. Near the Kauri forest we were shown a Maori j9«A, or fort, that is. A WATER-OAK. 202 THE BOY TEAVELLEES IN AUSTEALASIA. said to have been the scene of severe fighting in the early days of thecolony. While we were looking at it a man joined our group, and ourguide told us he was a ^akeha Maori. You will wonder, as we did,what a pakeha Maori is.
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