Volcanic Character of the Island of Hawii. 15 
State. About noon they passed a sinve crater. Its rim, on 
the side towards the sea, was broken down, and the streams 
of lava issuing thetigins marked the place by which its contents 
wi ipally discharged. 
that of Keanaee ; but, like much in the immediate vicinity of 
and but partially glazed over.’ For a mile along the coast, 
they found it nis sae to eich without makings a consider- 
able circuit inland, ey continued to pursue their we 
over a broken and pudiged tract of lava. 
In this volcanic country, the want of fresh water is severe-_ 
ly felt, and was often experienced by the missionaries during 
their tour. 
On the 26th, at Kapua, they hired a man to go about se+ 
pe miles i into the mountains, for fresh water ; but he return- 
one calabash full, a v inade sae su for 
ce pee oe had much | su ; Peles 
of'brackish water. They now entered the district 
and turning the southern point of the ae found es the 
itself in every direction, from the sere to dhe mountains. 
Here and these at distant intervals they passed a lonely 
house, or a few wandering fishermen’s huts, with a solitary 
shrub of thistles struggling for existence among the crevices 
in the blocks of scoria and lava: all besides was one vast de- 
sert, dreary, black and wild. Often all traces of a path entire- 
ly disappeared. For miles together, they clambered over huge 
Pieces of vitreous scoria, or rugged piles of iy which like 
several. of the tracts they had passed in Kana 
into its present confusion by some violent santo of the 
Their narrative proceeds : a From the state of _the lava, 
pas- 
sed, we should be induced to think, that eruptions and earth- 
quakes had been almost without exception, concomitants of 
each other ; and the shocks m: must have been exceedingly vio- 
in Saiueser, were sea piled ep Stee 
wise, or stood ee —— Ate others, piled up in a 
similar manner.” “ Some were six, ten, or twelve 
feet ee — ae Pot louie te the lava below, which 
