The Workshop of the Adzes. 



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workshop of the adzes ) its name, were abundant, but the fragments of the adzes usually 

 abundant in such quarries were not noticed.'" 



At the edge of Keanakakoi, as it was late in the afternoon, my natives built a 

 stone house to shelter the instruments, and we decided to cross Kilauea as the nearest 

 way home. We climbed down a steep gravel bank apparentl}' formed b}- the action 

 of sulphurous vapors on the rock of the w'alls, crossed a small sulphur bank from 

 which steam was issuing, and continued our way over the portion of Kilauea which 



FIG. 62. KKAXAKAKOI IX 1S.S9. 



was overflowed the year before. It was very disagreeable walking, as the crust was 

 quite thin and brittle, and we constantly broke through, only a few inches perhaps, 

 but there was a constant feeling of insecurity, for we could not know but that the 

 breaking crust covered a deeper crack in the harder lava beneath. Half wa}' across 

 we found a cone three or four feet high covered with spatters of lava of various colors: 

 Crossing the crater again the next morning in the rain it was difficult to find our way 

 owing to the steam, but we at length reached the bank. It was two o'clock before the 

 mist cleared away enough to permit the use of the theodolite. The large sulphur bank 

 near this end of Kilauea was of a bright green color owing to a large proportion of 



"' Every trace of stone-working has been hidden by a subsequent flow of lava which has for more than twenty- 

 five years covered the bottom of this crater. [469] 



