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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

On the Road to Te Anau

On the Road to Te Anau.

After lunch the horses were harnessed, and our juggage being packed in the trap, we took our seats and bade good-bye to our host and hostess and to the lake and mountains for which we bad in our short stay formed so great an affection. We had been told by one of the visitors that we should have a somewhat rough drive to the foot of Te Anau Lake from Manapouri, but we certainly did not find this to [unclear: be] case. The road is level for nearly the [unclear: w] distance, and passes through a [unclear: compart] uninteresting bit of country. It is [unclear: occupied] pastoral purposes, but the soil is monthly [unclear: of] shingly character and the pasturage [unclear: nat] poor Following the plateau along the [unclear: fo] the Manapouri Lake the only point of [unclear: in] before Te Anau is reached is the point [unclear: k] as the Horseshoe Bend. Here the road [unclear: w] in a semicircle, with an old lake bed at [unclear: a] siderable lower level, on the opposite [unclear: sides] which is that portion of the Waiau River [unclear: w] drains the Te Anau into the Manapouri [unclear: l] This piece of road is decidedly [unclear: interesting] picturesque. An easy drive of 12 miles [unclear: br] us to Mr Snodgrass's hotel at.