The Ascent of Hiialalai in 1S64. 9 



The Rev. William Ellis made the ascent iu 1823, and his account will be quoted 

 later, but as the present writer had more in view the geology of the mountain, he will 

 first give his own account of the ascent made thirty-eight years later, though still during 

 the life of this excellent missionary who read and approved the account that follows. ' 



On Thursday afternoon, July 28, 1864, Mr. Horace Mann and myself, with a 

 native guide left Kaawaloa. Our way led at first through open pastures, then 

 through tracts of tall ferns, and finally we came to the forest, where the soil was 



FIG. 8. PIT CRATER ON HfAI.AI.AI, 1 889. 



black and muddj-, and the bushes so close as to almost prevent our passage in some 

 places — gigantic raspberries {Rubies kaivaiiensis) with stems two inches in diameter 

 at the base and more than twenty feet long, hung across oiir path and often scratched 

 both ourselves and our horses in spite of our precautions. It rained hard so that we 

 were quite wet, and the clouds prevented our seeing much on either side. After some 

 six miles of forest, we came upon a bed of a-a, fresh-looking and rough, and the trees 

 were thinner and smaller. We were now on a dismal plain of pahoehoe and gravelly 

 sand, where in the scotch mist we could see but little out of our path. This was the 

 elevated plain between the mountains, and being at least 5000 feet above the sea the 

 atmosphere was cold as well as damp. 



'This account was first printed in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. I, p. ^So. 



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