rumbling sound is heard underneath, as if the eart were going to open up and receive the traveller who is on the surface, into the everlasting Gulf of Perdition. No person could see this place without feeling intensely the awful end of a miserable sinner, when committed to his last home; and may God in His providence prepare us all for such a serious change, and enlighten this portion of the inhabitants of the earth, and bless them with prosperity and happiness. We came to the Rapa, the residence of the chief of Taupo by the side of the lake. On our approach the old chief had three or four shots fired in honour