49. Cooking in a Hot Spring 152 50. The Champagne Cauldron 154 51. Evening on Lake Roto-rua 156 52. Planting Potatoes 158 53. The Wairau Gorge 160 54. In the Hooker Valley 162 55. Mount Cook 164 56. Mount Sefton 172 57. The Tasman Glacier 174 58. The Cecil and Walter Peaks 176 59. Manapouri 178 60. Mitre Peak 180 61. In Milford Sound 182 62. On the Clinton River 184 63. At the Head of Lake Te-Anau 186 64. The Buller River near Hawk’s Craig 192 65. Below the Junction of the Buller and Inangahua Rivers 194 66. Bream Head, Whangarei Heads 196 67. Lawyer’s Head 198 68. A Maori Chieftainess 200 69. Weaving the Kaitaka 212 70. “Te Hongi” 216 71. Wahine’s Canoe Race on the Waikato 218 72. Native Gathering 220 73. White Cliffs, Buller River 230 74. The Otira Gorge 232 75. Lake Waikare-Moana 234 _Map at end of Volume._ 242 CHAPTER I THE ISLANDS AND THEIR CITIES The poet who wrote the hexameter quoted on the title-page meant it to be the first line of a Latin epic. The epic was not written--in Latin at any rate,--and the poet’s change of purpose had consequences of moment to literature. But I have always been glad that the line quoted was rescued from the fire, for it fits our islands very well. They are, indeed, on the bounds of the watery world. Beyond their southern outposts the seaman meets nothing till he sees the iceblink of the Antarctic.