. 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 BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. his desires for shooting. But the tabu does not include trapping ornetting, and we had roast ducks for dinner and luncheon on payment ofa few shilhngs. There is a grand slaughtering festivity in December ofeach year, and this is the real reason of enforcing the tabu at othertimes. Sight-seeing places the world ov
. 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 BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. his desires for shooting. But the tabu does not include trapping ornetting, and we had roast ducks for dinner and luncheon on payment ofa few shilhngs. There is a grand slaughtering festivity in December ofeach year, and this is the real reason of enforcing the tabu at othertimes. Sight-seeing places the world over are the cause of great demoral-ization to the people that live near them, and the Hot Lake district ofISTew Zealand is no exception. The Maoris here are as rapacious as thehackmen at Niagara Falls, the guides and hotel-keepers at Eome, Naples,and hundreds of other places on the Continent, or the custodians of theTaj Mahal at Agra, or the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Every stepwe take has a fee of some kind attached to it, and they have even es-tabhshed a charge of five pounds (twenty-five dollars) for the privilegeof taking photographs in the Hot Lake district. Miss Cumming, whowrote At Home in Fiji and other interesting books, tells how they. 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
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