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Image: Arapaoa Bay from the house looking out onto the Coromandel Harbour

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Description: Campbell's description in his book “Poenamo” of Coromandel and Beeson's Island and Herekino when he arrived there in 1840, mentions this tiny strait of water, “a narrow passage between the island and the mainland, so narrow that I was often afterwards navigated across it on the back of a Maori wahine when none of the male sex was at hand.” Here in the pretty bay of Herekino lived and reigned the King of Waiau, William Webster, http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Gov08_07Rail-t1-body-d6-d4.html THE NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS MAGAZINE, VOLUME 8, ISSUE 7 (NOVEMBER 1, 1933)
Title: Arapaoa Bay from the house looking out onto the Coromandel Harbour
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