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an active state. One day there, madam, is worth one year of 

 common existence. This is twenty-seven miles round and 1274 

 feet deep. I rested from 12 M. to 12 at night, on the mountain, 

 when the wane moon presented herself in silvery brightness, re- 

 flecting a glare on the ragged lava like Gothic turrets. With 

 thankfulness and joy, the beautiful constellation of Orion being 

 my guide, I rose to descend to a climate more congenial to my 

 nature, and the habitations of men, the land of flowers, and the 

 melody of birds." 



While on his way from Kohala to Hilo on July 12, 1834, at a 

 place near Keanakolu, in North Hilo, David Douglas fell into a 

 pit excavated for capturing cattle and was gored to death bv a 

 bullock which was already entrapped. He was found soon after 

 and his body taken to Hilo, where it was held for examination 

 for marks of other violence, because of the suspicious circum- 

 stances of his death. He was finally buried by the English con- 

 sul in the yard of Kawaiahao Church on August 4, 1834. By 

 1856 the grave of David Douglas, although originally bricked 

 over, had become so obliterated that it could not be identified. 

 Consequently the tombstone in his memor}% which was prepared 

 in San Francisco by the Rev. S. Brenchley, was placed on the 

 outside wall of the church to the right of the entrance, where it 

 may be seen to this d^y. 



Cannot we, of these islands, pay a tribute to the memorv of 

 this lamented traveler whose name is identified with the progress 

 of discovery in the various departments of natural science in 

 N. W. America, California, and the Hawaiian group, who thrice 

 visited our shores, which became the final resting place of his 

 mortal coil, by calling this wood, indispensable to our comfort 

 and convenience, by its proper name — Douglas fir? 



