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ges sooner lead to sacrifices of propitiation and peace, It is 
now rapidly losing its power over the minds of the people. 
Not one of the large number in our company seemed to be 
at all apprehensive of it as a supernatural being. 
fter an almost sleepless night, we early turned our faces 
homeward, not without many a “lingering look behind,” 
even from the very entrance of our path. It was precisely 
6 o'clock, when the last of our party left the brink. Never 
was there a more delightful morning: The atmosphere was 
perfectly clear, and the air, with the thermometer at 56° Faren- 
heit, pure and bracing. A splendid assemblage of strong and 
beautifnlly contrasted colors glowed dus. The bedof the 
crater, still covered with the broad shadows of the eastern 
banks, was of jetty blackness. The reflection of the early 
sun added a deeper redness to the western clifis—the bright 
yellow of those opposite showed here and there a tinge 0 
vermillion, while the body of smoke, rising between them, 
hung in light drapery of pearly whiteness against the deep 
azure of the southern sky. Moun ouna Kea, 
in full view in the west and north, were richly clothed in pur- 
ple, while the long line of intervening forests, the level over 
which were passing, and the precipice by which it was 
encircled, thickly covered with trees and shrubbery, exhibited 
y bright and lively green. 
On gaining the top of the first precipice, the distant view 
of the crater and the surrounding scenery was so strikingly 
beautiful, that, though most of the gentlemen had preceded 
me, I stopped long enough to secure the outlines of a draw- 
ing. We walked rapidly during the morning, and by 12 
o'clock reached the houses built for our accommodation half 
way between the harbour and volcano. We determined to 
spend the night at this place. After dinner, a native dance 
was performed, similar to that witnessed on our way up the 
mountain on Monday—after which we retired early to rest— 
set off before day-light the next morning, and reached the Bay 
in safety, at 1 o’clock on Friday. = . 
