The Southern cross and Southern crown : or, The gospel in New Zealand . ^ set-tlement. They had heard something about spiritualthings from Pita and his Avifo ; * and as early as 1831they sent AViiretutu, one of their chiefs, to Paihia torequest that teachers might be sent to them, assuringMr. Williams that they were not influenced by anyhope of pecuniary advantages, but simply by a wishto learn how to sit in peace. The messenger seem-ed so much in earnest, tliat Mr. IT. Williams and resolved to visit the district and judge for * Page EOTO-RUA. 191 themselves. They set out in O
The Southern cross and Southern crown : or, The gospel in New Zealand . ^ set-tlement. They had heard something about spiritualthings from Pita and his Avifo ; * and as early as 1831they sent AViiretutu, one of their chiefs, to Paihia torequest that teachers might be sent to them, assuringMr. Williams that they were not influenced by anyhope of pecuniary advantages, but simply by a wishto learn how to sit in peace. The messenger seem-ed so much in earnest, tliat Mr. IT. Williams and resolved to visit the district and judge for * Page EOTO-RUA. 191 themselves. They set out in October of that sameyear, and had a most interesting expedition. The na-tural scenery was far more striking than anythingthey had yet seen in the Island. The view of thelake itself was very fine as they approached it: on thenearer side a noble wood stretched down to tlie watersedge ; the islands in the lake, the steam of hot springsrising towards the north, and the richly wooded hillsof Tarawera in the back-ground, formed a lovely whole country was full of natures wonders : herewere boiling caldrons of mud, black, blue, grey, green,yellow, and red, giving out their lazy steam; close tothese, and as if purposely in contrast, were clear poolsof bright azure-coloured boiling water, enclosed in na-tural walls of sulphurous formation. But the mostbeautiful objects were the jets: these boiling foun-tains, thrown out from the top of irregularly shapedcones of a pinkish colour formed from the deposit ofthe water, rose many feet into the air,
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