Volcanic Character of the Island of Hawaii. 17 
’d, and the seat of the people while they heard the tidings of 
salvation, and at night, the pilgrims ois sought repose upon 
this rough and pointed bed. Incessant almost, as was its 
ie it often presented something new or more striking 
than what had appeared before. On the 30th they cw 
elled over another tract of lava ** about 200 rods wide, which 
had been violently torn to pieces, and thrown up in the wild- 
est confusion. In some places it was heaped forty or fifty 
feet high. ‘The road across it was formed of large, smooth, 
round stones, Placed i in a line two or three feet apart.” On 
these the missionaries passed over, by stepping from one to 
another, but not without considerable fatigue. They were 
shown the place where, in one of the wars of ‘Tamehamaha, a 
party of his enemies, about 80 men, being the warriors of two 
villages, were, during their repose at night, destroyed by a 
vo. eruption. 
In their pitiren's south-eastern side of the island, 
they arrived at the allan ri Milone, celebrated on 
of a short pebbly beach called Shoroa. Of these stones they 
ad been accustomed to form, not only cutting instruments, 
but to fabricate gods. _It required considerable skill to select 
those which would answer, and as they were supposed to be 
endowed with sex, one of ok kind was selected, when they 
were about to be transforme were wrap- 
ped up together in a piece of och and after a certain time, a 
small stone was found with them, which, when grown to the 
size of its parents, was een. to the heiau and made after- 
wards to preside at the gam 
Although the climate of Hawaii 3 is hot, and the thermome- 
ter on the evening of July 31st stood at 70°, the air from the 
mountains soon became so keen that, although i in a tropical 
climate, se found a fire very comforts 
As upon tie high lac they perceived 
a number of Yedkinns of smoke and vapour rising at a consid- 
erable distance, and also one large steady column that seem- 
ed little affected by the wind, and th as they were told, 
arose from the great crater of Kira 
The next day three of the party | tial the eos where 
they had seen the columns of smoke rising the day before. 
led five miles over a considerably fertile and 
composed surface of a bed o ancient lava, upon which 
shrubs and trees had grown to a considerable height, As they 
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