OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue II, 11 January 1902, Page 64

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

Gems of the Pacific.

GROVE OF MAHOGANY TREES. Tahiti, the largest anti most important of the French possessions in the I'aelfie. is justly celebrated for its j-nchanting scenery and its fertile | The island is the home of some magnificent specimens of forest flora. Conspicuous among these is the umbrageous foliage of the Te inanu, or island mahogany. A grove of these grand old trees is shown in the photograph. 1 | RAIATEA. , Nearly all the Society Islands are favoured with commodious and sheltered harbours, into which the trading steamers and coasting vessels find safe and easy en t ranee. Many of these island ports are provided with excell,ent accommodation for shipping. | Raiatea possesses a substantial wharf, or quay, alongside which vessels can load in safety. j The island is also celebrated for its ‘•Fire Walkers,” one tribe particularly being experts at the wonderful performance of walking bare - footed through a furnace of heated stones, and they occasionally give to visitors an exhibition of their daring feats. , BORO-BORO. The Society Islands, which are nearly all volcanic, are remarkable for the grandeur of their romantic scenery. The steep and craggy outlines of the precipitous hills assume a variety of striking forms, like the weather-worn ruins of towers, castles, or temples. Boro-boro, the most northerly of the larger islands of the group, presents many changes of aspect, according to the position and distance of the observer. At first it is discerned as a great pyramid, the upper portion of which is lost in the clouds; then, as the cloud lifts, it reveals a counterpart of St Michael’s castlecrowned mount. On a nearer approach it assumes the shape of a grand oil cathedral, changing again into a representation upon a gigantic scale, of Edinburgh Castle, as seen from the Grass-market. Boro-boro has one of

th«. finest harbours in tropical Pacific, well; protected by the frowning heights and a great coral reef ' RAROTONGA. ‘ ’ • - This beautiful isdand is one of the “Pearip of the' Pacific.” When seen from an approaching" vessel, it seems to rise from tire sea until its mountain tops are lost amid the clouds. It is sent of government, and the central depot for the Cook Island Grqpp, recently included within the of New Zealand. Tfye island is closely surrounded with a formidable reef, in which there •are pnly a few openings, the largest of which is only a small boat harbour. Unfortunately this is the only shelter at present available for shipping" visiting the group. There is a possibility of improvement by blasting some of the rocks which obstruct the passage Rarotonga is celebrated for its beautiful scenery. The lofty hiHs —so often, canopied by elouds, the many streamlets, the ravines and rivers, clothed with luxuriant foliage, and a glorious coastline, broken with picturesque openings and wooded islets, make some of the most impressive pictures in the tropics. The Ngatangiia River, at the back of the island, affords some lovely vistas, which will be sure to delight the artist, and form the subject of many pictures.

SHIPPING ORANGES AT MAUKI

Many of tne Cook Islands are closely surrounded by a fringing reef, across which all goods and passengers must be carried. The surf beating on the reef wall forbids the close approach of vessels, and as there is no anchorage tney have to keep “off- and on," or else moor to the reef. The s.s. Ovalau is moored to the reef, with just sufficient sail to keep her steady, and a cargo of 2500 cases of oranges is being shipped. The boats are loaded up, then dragged through the shallow water over the reef, and launched through the surf into the sea. It is very dangerous work, but the natives are expert boatsmen, and it is very rare that an accident happens, but at every mishap they shout with merriment-

SHE HAD A LIVER.

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