StNicholas [serial] . AN EASTER TUKN-OUT. IN THE LAND OF FIRE AND STEAM BY W. G. FITZ-GERALD If one can imagine a furious and active volcanowith a crater a thousand miles in extent, sunklevel with the earth and thinly covered with ascreen of soil, one has some idea of the awe-inspiring Wonderland of New Zealands NorthIsland. You can not poke a stick into the ground. changing in shape and color, and there are hotsprings here stretching in a continuous chain forthree hundred miles. The ground throbs andquivers with volcanic activity, and set in themidst of it all are native Maori villages of sur
StNicholas [serial] . AN EASTER TUKN-OUT. IN THE LAND OF FIRE AND STEAM BY W. G. FITZ-GERALD If one can imagine a furious and active volcanowith a crater a thousand miles in extent, sunklevel with the earth and thinly covered with ascreen of soil, one has some idea of the awe-inspiring Wonderland of New Zealands NorthIsland. You can not poke a stick into the ground. changing in shape and color, and there are hotsprings here stretching in a continuous chain forthree hundred miles. The ground throbs andquivers with volcanic activity, and set in themidst of it all are native Maori villages of sur-passing interest. A strange race of magnificentsavages, who, although they ,^. <,c been cannibalswithin the memory of living man, are now ahighly intelligent race, and actually send repre-sentatives to the parliament in Wellington. The native women, gorgeous in garments ofcrimson, grefen, and purple, are forever puffingstolidly at oig pipes, and going hither and thitherabout their household work with the quaintest ofbabies slung across their backs. This reminds methat domestic work in this strange region is madelight, indeed, for white housewives as well as theMaori women. Every garden and back yard hasits hot water, provided by nature. And when these easy-going people grow hun- GETTING FIRE BY POKING A STICK IN THE GROUND
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