Walice of Hawaii, (Owkyee,) and its Volec ack eee. 
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The rude hut, or rather screen against the wind—consisting of 
poles propped in a slanting position, and covered on one side only 
with a few leaves of the’sugar cane, and bushes slightly placed upon 
them—we thought for a time very comfortable, and wisely locatec 
to temperature ; being on a spot of ground of such grateful heat, 
compared with the rawness’of the mountain air, as to lead us to con- 
gratulate ourselves in the advantage it afforded, as. we sat on our va- 
tious packages in front, and partook of our evening repast, within a 
foot of a crevice, from which steam issued of such power as to cook 
our potatoes in a short time, without the aid of fire. But when we 
came to take possession of the mats, strewn inside of it for beds, we 
found ourselves in quarters considerably hotter than those, in which, 
Colman the poet puts his lodger over the bake shop. You will 
scarce believe, that we all slept on a temperature of 120° Fahrenheit 
—but such is the fact: and it was well the air above was as low as 
56° or 60°, so that by frequent turnings, we could let one side cool, 
While the other was heating, or we should have been well-nigh par- _ 
boiled by morning. ‘There was no alternative however—it was the 
only shelter—and as there were dashes of rain through the night, it 
would have been almost death to have § ept, in the open air, on any 
Cooler bed. We, therefore, made the best of the necessity; and 
after many a turn of restlessness, and some impatience, and forebo- 
dings, we obtained a.tolerable night’s rest ; and were quite reconciled 
0 our dormitory, when, on rising, we found that the continued vapor 
bath had dissipated, almost entirely, the stiffness of limbs which most 
of us had suffered, from the length and rapidity of our walk, 
I rose at midnight, and went to the crater. ‘The steam from above 
‘Was still driving, in thick volumes, over the cliffs ;. and with the smoke 
‘om below, rendered-every thing obscure ; but various seats of fire, — 
' tremendous action, sent up flashes of light through the dimness, to 
the highest clouds, and, at times, converted the whole body of smoke _ 
‘nto one lurid mass. Some of the spots, apparently most liquid and 
Most agitated, were situated immediately below the place where I 
Stood '; and, now and then, the fiery streams in them, circling widely 
and swiftly in different directions, glared on the eye, in. all the regu- 
laity and brilliancy of the lamps of an orchestra. But as these ex- 
hi tions were but fitful. and obscure, compared with what I had on 
; ecasion beheld, and the wind bleak and piercing, I was glad 
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