CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. The Story of the Rocks. | |
| The Port Hills and their geological history—The Dead Fire-Cones—“TheFire of Tamatea”—Bold Cliff andMountain Scenery—Beauties of the Port Range | [1] |
| CHAPTER II. The Port Hills and Their Names. | |
| Maori Nomenclature of the Port Range—Hills of theRainbow God—“The Pinnacle of Kahukura”—Crags ofthe Sounding Footsteps—Ancient Lyttelton: “TheBasket of Heads”—Ambuscades in the Bush | [7] |
| CHAPTER III. Round the Sugarloaf. | |
| The Flanks of Te Heru-o-Kahukura—Tracks on the MountainSide—At Dyer’s Pass—Maori Name of Marley’s Hill—Exploringthe Kahukura Bush—Needles of the Ongaonga—TheValleys and the Small Timber—“Crest of theRainbow” | [24] |
| CHAPTER IV. Rapaki: A Village by the Sea. | |
| The Bell on the Ribbonwood Tree—Tikao and his Traditions—TheDays of the Ngati-Mamoe—Te Rangiwhakaputa’sConquests—The Crags of Tamatea—A Sturdy Pagan—EveningPicture at Rapaki | [39] |
| CHAPTER V. The “Ahi-a-Tamatea”: How the Sacred Fire Came toWitch Hill. | |
| The Giant’s Causeway—A Volcanic Dyke—Tamatea thePolynesian Explorer—A Great March—The Camp atWitch Hill—Tamatea’s Call for Fire—The Tipua Flamesfrom Ngauruhoe—“The Ashes of Tamatea’s CampFire” | [52] |
| CHAPTER VI. Hills of Faery: The Little People of the Mist. | |
| Legends of the Patu-paiarehe —The Fairies of the Port andPeninsula Hills—Mountains of Enchantment—“TheRed Cloud’s Rest”—The Fairies and the Mutton-birds—TheMaero of the Woods—Mount Pleasant and itsTapu | [61] |