. Il ragazzo di viaggiatori in Oceania : le avventure di due giovani in un viaggio per il sandwich, Marquesas, società, e Samoa Isole Feejee, e attraverso le colonie di Nuova Zelanda, Nuovo Galles del Sud, Queensland, Victoria e Tasmania e South Australia. ut sofferto molto durante le guerre Maori, come la maggior parte di thenatives nel distretto del Taranaki w^ere ostile. Ci hanno mostrato sev-erale fabbriche, segherie, e una grande flouring-mill, e hanno chiamato ourattention in uno stabilimento per la produzione di ferro dalle sabbie del mare-shore. Lungo tutta la costa del nord dell'isola vi è una grande quantità ofiron in t

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. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. ut suffered much during the Maori wars, as most of thenatives in the district of Taranaki w^ere hostile. They showed us sev-eral factories, saw-mills, and a large flouring-mill, and they called ourattention to an establishment for making iron from the sands of thesea-shore. All along this coast of North Island there is a large quantity ofiron in the sand, sometimes as high as seventy per cent. The peoplecall it steel, but it is really iron; it is in fine particles, just like the iron-sands of the southern shore of Long Island, near New York. Theysaid the iron-works at New Plymouth had never been prosperous, asthey could not get the proper flux for the metal; if they could only dothis their success would be enormous. Doctor Bronson told them thatexactly the same thing had been tried near New York for utilizing theblack sand of Long Island, and thus far it had been a failure. Thelarge proportion of iron in the sand is noticeable, not only to the eye VIEW IN THE PROVINCE OF TAEANAKI. 261. ii!i;iil!l!|!li!!iii!illli|!!!lllllll m III! I li^lii iliNii NllillliU li!: liiii;! ;iyfli!ii!i Jllilllll li ISllllliillllillllll liltlii!!!!i!ii!l!il!!liiiliilil!l!!l 262 THE BOY TKAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. but to the sense of touch; as you pick uj) a handful its unusual weightat once calls attention to it. We visited a farm near New Plymouth, where we spent a nightand a day listening to stories of the troublous times of the Maori war, riding or walking through finely tilled fields, and looking at herds ofcattle and flocks of sheep which were well calculated to excite the ad-miration of all who are interested in grazing or agricultural pursuits. One gentleman whom we met was an old settler who had fought theMaoris, and had twice seen his f

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