Volcano of Kiraued. 3 375 
ve an eruption—such power must burst through eve. 
thing.”” . He had. scareely ceased speaking, w en a te 
column of black smoke, was seen rising from the crater, di- 
rectly in front of us—the subterranean struggle at the same 
time ceased, and immediately aftcr, flames burst from a large 
cone, near which we had been in the morning, and which 
then appeared to have been long inactive. Red-hot stones 
cinders, and ashes were also propelled, with immense vio- 
lence, to a great height, and shortly after, the molten lava 
boiled over and flowed down the sides of the cone, and on 
the surrounding scoria, in two beautiful curved streams, glit- 
tering with indescribable brilliancy. iovig’ 
whole lake of fire also opened in a more distant part. 
This could not have been less than two miles in circumfe- 
rence, and its action was more horribly sublime than. any 
thing I ever imagined to exist, even in the idler visions of un- 
earthly things. Its surface had all the agitation cean— 
billow after billow, tessed its monstrous bosom in the air, and, 
° 
of torment ascendeth for ever and ever! No work of Him 
who laid the foundations of the earth, ever brought to my 
mind the awful revelations of his word with such overwhelm- 
ing impression: Truly “ with God is terrible majesty”— 
‘Jet all the nations say unto God, How terrible art thow ire 
Under the name of Pele, (pay-lay,) this voleano, as you 
y have seen stated in the Missionary Herald, was one of 
the most distinguished and most feared of the gods of Ha- 
waii® Its terrific features are well suited to the character 
and abode of an unpropitious demon, and few works in 
nature would be more likely to impose thoughts of terror on 
the ignorant and superstitious, or from their destructive rava~ 
ddess of voleanoes, with the atives, and Kua- 
istering es. * cori 
* Pele, is the all powerful go 
uea is the habitation of herself and her ministering deities. The vical 
er are considered their houses, where they frequently amuse themselves 
by playing at koriane ; the roa e furnaces, and the crackling of th 
flax are the kani musi ance ; the red 
flaming surge is the surf wherein they play sportively on the rolling wave 
ingular ting between Mr. Ellis and his party 
A spirited account of a singular meet 
i of Pele, is given in the North American. 
with Oani, the priestess 
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