‘Folcano of Kirauea. 363 
AsLanp oF Oanu, SAnpwicnu ISLANDs, 
ugust 26, 1825 
July’2d, 1825.—Early on Monday, the 27th of June, we 
ssommenced our osed excursion to the voleano. The 
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party from the Blonde, consisted of Lord Byron, Mr. Ball, Ist 
Lieutenant, Lieut. Malden, the Surveyor, Mr. Davis, the Sur- 
geon, Rev. Mr. Bloxam the Chaplain, Mr. A. Bloxam, the 
Mineralogist, Mr. Dampier, the Artist, Mr. White, a son of the 
Earl of Bantry, and Mr. Powell, Midshipman. Maro, a prin- 
delightful foliage I have ever seen. It was composed are 
pally of lofty and wide-spreading candle-trees, whose whiti 
leaves and blossoms aff a g contrast with the dark 
green of the various creepers, which hung in luxurious fes- 
toons and pendants, from their very tops to te, eee 
forming thick and deeply shaded bowers round their trunks. 
