i0 Volcanic Character of the Island of Hawaii. 
This mountain, called Kuararai, is one of the three highest 
re Hawaii, and it was very natural that the travellers should 
wish to ascend to its summit. ‘The varied strongly mark 
volcanic surface” of the higher parts—‘“the ‘traditional ac- 
counts of its eruptions, the thick woods that skirt its base, and 
the numerous feathered tribes that inhabit them,” all conspired 
to make it an ohjert ect of Se Se interest. About So’clock, on the 
morning of July 9th, they commenced the ascent, accompani- 
ed by ‘three native aiuides. After travelling about. 12 miles, 
they arrived at the last house on the 
Their ir guides were unwilling to proceed any farther that night, 
but the Pi oe gi oceeded without them, and “travelled a- 
bout six miles over a rough and difficult road, sometimes across: 
stréams or lava full of fissures and chasms, at other times through 
ick brush-wood, or high ferns, so closely interwoven as al- 
most to arrest their progress.” They passed the night in a 
’ temporary hut, erected on the lava, and the morning of the 
10th was ushered in by the singing of birds. The thermome- 
a was 46 deg. on the outside of the hut—on the sea shore it 
about 84 ving united in their morning or- 
s, they proceeded on their journey ; “ their road lying 
pies thick-underwood and fern, was wet and fatiguing, for 
about two miles, when they arrived at an ancient stream of la- 
va, about twenty rods wide, running in a direction nearly 
Sa alee Ronee ieee tc of Sateen, 
over 
three or four miles, they reached the sp 8 one of the ridges, 
on at western side of the mountain.” They met with straw- 
rope ¢ 
“nat Betweet va nine best ten in the forenoon, they arrived at a 
large ona net eas a a mile in dik Pietro and 
apparently eep. he sides were recularl 
the bottom was a d, with an ies wae 
its sides for eight seconds, but not to reach its bottom. 
—— two other apertures very near this, nine feet in diameter, 
a two hundred feet “oe Walking along 
