. 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. THE TABU REMOVED. tried to make her pay the photograph fee for taking sketches of theWhite Terraces and other curiosities during her visit. She resisted onthe ground that a sketch was not a photograph; but they refused tohsten to her excuses, and threatened to destroy her sketches unless shepaid the sum demanded. She managed, however, to smuggle t
. 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. THE TABU REMOVED. tried to make her pay the photograph fee for taking sketches of theWhite Terraces and other curiosities during her visit. She resisted onthe ground that a sketch was not a photograph; but they refused tohsten to her excuses, and threatened to destroy her sketches unless shepaid the sum demanded. She managed, however, to smuggle themaway by concealing the sketches among some rugs, and leaving the dis-trict under the escort of a large party of English tourists. Wairoa is a pretty village with some two or three hundred inhab-itants, most of them Maoris, and has a church, a school-house, and two. A FEARFUL EARTHQUAKE AND ERUPTION. 235. ?5^ MAORI VILLAGE OF WAIROA, IN THE HOT LAKE DISTRICT. , hotels for the accommodation of tourists. The church and school areless prosperous than they used to be, as the natives are not as zealous inChristianity as when they were first converted. Soon after the Maoriwar broke out they hanged one of their pastors, and compelled anotherto flee to avoid the same fate.* We were comfortably lodged at one of the hotels, and the nextmorning took the coach for Tauranga, rejecting the advice of several * Shortl}^ after the visit described above,the famous terraces were destrojed by aneruption of Mount Tarawera. Soon after midnight of June 10, 1886, loud explosionswere heard and violent earthquakes felt; in a few minutes Mount Tarawera broke out asan active volcano, hurling ashes, dust, and red-hot stones to a great height, and the wholesky in all directions seemed to be aflame. The ashes, dust, and mud were distributed overa wide area of country, some of the dust and ashes falling fifty miles
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