A FAMOUS GOIDE.
DEATH OF SOPHIA
j The well-known guide, Sophia, died iat Whakarewarewa on Monday. She | was daughter of a British officer ! named Grey, her mother b=.ing of the ! Ngatiruanui tribe, Taranaki, and was born either in Taranaki or at the Bay of Islands about 85 years ago, and she went through an awfu! experience at the time of the Tarawera eruption on June 10th, 1886. Her whare at the buried village of Wairoa afforded shelter to some forty natives. Sophia guided the last party (including the ill-fated Mr Bainbridge) who viewed the famous pink and white terraces, and she also saw the phantom canoe that the natives regarded as a warning of the disaster. Sophia, who was educated at the Mission School in the Bay of Islands, was a fluent talker, and her description of the wonders of the thermal regions and of the eruption were a source of delight and interest to tourists. Among the notabilities Sophia conducted over the ter races was the Duke of Edinburgh, and on the occasion of the King's visit to Rotorua she conducted the Duchess of York round Whakarewarewa.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 421, 9 December 1911, Page 7
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188A FAMOUS GOIDE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 421, 9 December 1911, Page 7
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