364 Volcano of Kurauce. 
The interior, however, was far less interesting,- presenting: 
nothing but an almost impenetrable thicket on both sides of 
from their irregularity and sharpness, not only tore and cut 
our shoes, bat constantly endangered our feet and. ankles al- 
so. The high brake, ginger, &c. which border and over- 
hang the pashi, were filled with the rain of the night, and 
from their ——- — greatly to the unpleasantness of 
the walk. Anko a half, however, saw us safely through, 
and refreshing ae sae inthe charming groves with which 
the wood was here again edged. 
The remaining distance, of near 30 miles, was very mucly 
of one character. The path consisted solely of a bed of 
black lava, so smooth, in many places, as to endanger falling, 
and still shewing the configuration of the molten stream, as. 
it had rolled down the gradual descent ef the mountain, le 
midway throngh a strip of open, uncultivated country, from 
three to five miles wide, skirted on both sides bya ragged 
and stinted wood, and covered cas grass, fern and low 
shrubs, principally a species of the whortle berry. ‘There 
were no houses near the path, but the thatch of a cottage, or 
the rismg smoke, seen occasionally, in the edge of the woods, 
shewed that it was not an uninhabited region. Far on the 
right and west, the mountains Monha Kea and Mouna Koz 
were distinctly pesthle; and on the left and east, at an equal 
distance, the ocean with its horizon, from the height at which 
we viewed it, mimgling with the sky. 
We dined thirteen miles from the bay, m the shade-of @ 
Jarge candle-tree, where a party of people from the neigh- 
bouring settlements, were waiting to see the ‘ arii nui mai 
Berekania mai,” (the great chief = Britain,) as they call- 
ed Lord B. Sonor two miles further, we came to the houses 
erected fo ngs the first hiebes “hinking it however, 
too early to Flay by for the rest of the da ay, after witnessing @ 
dance performed by a company from the surrounding dis- 
tricts, we hastened on, intending to sieep at the next houses, 
ten miles distant. But night evertook us before we reached 
them, and perceiving the ruins of two huts, a few rods from 
our path, we turned aside to them just .as darkness began to 
set in. ood Bstiske forming their frames, were all that re+ 
: meeialeadcre rs soon cove wed thems: with ohne! and 
