StNicholas [serial] . WAIMANGU GEYSER THROWING ITS BOILING WATER AND MUDHUNDREDS OF FEET IN THE AIR. great collection of native women and girls doingtheir washing in a vast smoking lake big enoughto have steamers on it. The amazing thing about such a lake is that holes that blow andwhistle and shriek withuncanny far away one isshown an innocent-looking lake of placidwater, perhaps an acrein extent. This_ is thefamous geyser of Wai-mangu, and the appar-ently harmless pool willsuddenly dart a boilingtorrent over a thousandfeet into the air, bear-ing with it, with fear-ful violenc
StNicholas [serial] . WAIMANGU GEYSER THROWING ITS BOILING WATER AND MUDHUNDREDS OF FEET IN THE AIR. great collection of native women and girls doingtheir washing in a vast smoking lake big enoughto have steamers on it. The amazing thing about such a lake is that holes that blow andwhistle and shriek withuncanny far away one isshown an innocent-looking lake of placidwater, perhaps an acrein extent. This_ is thefamous geyser of Wai-mangu, and the appar-ently harmless pool willsuddenly dart a boilingtorrent over a thousandfeet into the air, bear-ing with it, with fear-ful violence, everythirty hours or so, hun-dreds of tons of mudand great boulders. Af-ter this it relapsesagain into titter calm. All over this regionthe New Zealand gov-ernment has establishedhealth resorts; and at Rotorua there are immenseswimming baths of hot mineral water, fed directlyfrom the boiling geysers. The cure lasts aboutsix weeks; but visitors usually stay much longer,. NATIVE WOMEN DOING THEIR LAUNDRY-WORK IN THE NATURAL HOT WATER. ice-cold and boiling hot waters are to be foundin it almost side by side! And the place is ren-dered the more terrible-looking in that the veryprecipices that hem it in are pitted with steam lost in amazement at the sights in a region uniqueon earth. Here is Rainbow Mountain, made up entirelyof earths tinted scarlet and purple, orange and IN THE LAND OF FIRE AND STEAM 497 pink and green. The valley below is fairly robedin vapor-clouds; and here within a few acres areten mighty geysers of boiling water in activeeruption, beside hundreds of miniature mud-vol-canoes forever thumping and bubbling. The very precipices hemming in the valley arestone walls so hot that one can not rest oneshand upon them; and all through the treacherousscrub the ground is quivering and muttering andthrowing sulphur-laden steam. Here is the strangest of volcanoes, Mount Kakaramea, whoseentire north side appears to have been boiled softby steam fro
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