Flies That Run on Boiling Water

Women cooked potatoes over New Zealand steam vents; the traveller Angas called them capitally done.

Angas heard water boiling beneath the crust he walked on, where breaking through meant scalding death.

Small flies were seen running across the surface of boiling ponds ninety feet in circumference.

Rotorua houses built over hot springs sometimes collapsed, dropping dancing parties into the water below.