I was both pleased and edified; and observed the impression they made on the natives. This morning we had service about 6 in the morning, Mr. Taylor baptising 4 natives; distributing medicine and books whilst I conversed with the natives, and then came on our journey through plain and forest to Herekikia's place at Taupo lake, where we visited the Hot Springs, where one of the most wonderful phenomena of nature was to be seen at one of the springs, wher after an elapse of 5 minutes, a gust of boiling water from a pond 3½ fathoms deep, making a noise similar to that of the Gulf of Coryvreckan, near Jura; and a great trembling and