Notice of Hawan, (Owyhee,) and us Volcan Regions, Ye. 231 
ing this part of Hawaii from that of every other island in the Pacific 
which the traveller had visited—presenting its broad lawns and dark 
groves, in lights and shades of exquisite beauty, and in every variety 
of sei from that which seemed almost white to the deepest 
Fro rom the lofty, but primitive looking chapel, as a centre, the hum- 
ble dwellings of the fisherman and the farmer were seen, widely scat- 
tered in every direction; some skirting the beach, as it swept round 
in the beautiful curvature forming the bottom of the bay; some hang- 
ing on the cliffs of the bolder shores ; ; some just peeping from the 
thick foliage of a grove more inland, or slightly screened by the shade 
of asmall clump or single tree; and some, again, standing unshelter- 
ed and alone, in the midst of a wide spreading field. Such was the 
foreground ; while behind, an extensive country, marked in two or 
three places by old, long extinguished, and now verdant craters—rose 
gradually for miles, to the stately forests enriching the broad bases of 
ounaroa and Mounakea, both in distinct view—the first appearing 
far in the south, above and beyond a line of green forests, in one long, 
regular, and distant arch of blue—the last, seemingly near, and tow- 
ering loftily against the western sky, i in irregular and broken summits 
of gigantic magnitude. 
_ The admiration of all on board, says Mr. Stewart, was greatly ex- 
cited by the scene, which, in the simple luxuriance of natural beauty, 
Was one of the most rich and lovely. 
As is almost invariably the case in this district, heavy showers of 
rain fell during the latter part of the night and morning. 
On the 9th of October, the party which had been formed to visit 
the voleano at the foot of Mounaroa, thirty five miles inland from the 
harbor, commenced their tour. ‘There were eleven gentlemen of 
the ship assisted by twenty natives and a servant or two, and_ their 
toute was that which is exactly described in Mr. Stewart’s former 
Volume. We shall, as far as possible, use his own language with oc- 
casional abridgment, and such slight modifications as may be neces- 
sary to connect the facts without injuring the sense. 
We accomplished, says the author, fourteen miles just after fou 
9 ’elock ; and finding at that distance excellent odations for the 
night, Severained to sleep before proceeding farther. The establish- 
Ment—consisting of three houses, situated a short distance from the 
toad, on the hapless se a fine tr ractof lniehs having ver y much the appear- 
ice of a large plantation of j dow grounds at 
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