CHAPTER XXV.

Bewildering new surroundings—The Maori dragon—Breakfast at Wairoa—The mission-house—The hot lake—White terraces—Sulphur and mud volcanoes—An unjust claim resisted—Champions from the Antipodes, 290

Fijian rivers—Samoan envoys—Death of a true apostle—A revival—Making a race-course—Mission to New Britain, 307

Various plantations—Crotons—Foreign labour—Green beetles—Loma Loma—A Tongan colony—Hot springs, 328