Te Tauri, a converted Taupo chief, came when some one
was- wanted to direct the fresh-bom thoughts ; and then
when their increased growth required increased skill,
Mr. Williams arrived. He went up the river, crossed the
central plains, walked by the smoking Tongariro, crossed
the Moana — the sea of Taupo — and by Rotorua, reached the
east coast. For now the Missionary could go wherever he
liked, the whole country was open to him. He reached

* Pukapvka — tie word applied either to paper or books — at first sight appears
to be derived from our English word hooh; it is hot so, but from the large white
leaf of the Pukapuka Eangiora (Brachyglottis repanda), to which the natives
likened paper when they first saw it. They said, " He rau pukapuka tenei ! "
" Oh ! this is a leaf of the Pukapuka." The Greeks derived their iSr^Xo;, book,
and the Latins their Liber, book, in a similar way, from the inner bark of the
Linden or TeU tree, and the Egyptians theirs from the leaf of the Papyrus,
whence comes our word paper.
t Some time after my arrival at Wanganui, I casually learned from the
natives that they had idols. I doubted this, as my brethren in the north asserted
the contrary. I bid them bring me some of them. Several were brought from
the caves into which they had been cast. I took some of them with me to
England, which I presented to the British Museum, and the FitzwiUiam Museum
at Cambridge.
