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THE SANDWICH ISLANDS — THE 

 JOHNSTONE ISLANDS. 



(JwHYEE rises majestically, in grand unbroken 

 lines, from the waves, and forms, in an enormous 

 mass, three different mountain^summits, on two of 

 which the snow lies several months in the year. 



We both times visited the Sandwich islands in 

 the autumn, and never saw any snow on the 

 heights of Ovvhyee. (In November, 1816, and in 

 September, I8I7.) 



Mouna Roa, the great mountain. La Mesa, (the 

 Table of the Spaniards *,) rises in a bold curve 

 southwards, in the interior of the island, and towers 

 above the others, which unite with it. Mouna 

 Kaah, the little mountain, the next to the Mouna 

 Roa, with its rugged cliffs, occupied the north. 

 The third, Mouna Wororay, a volcanic peak, lies 

 on the western coast. There is a drawing of the 

 crater in Vancouver's atlas. On its naked de- 

 clivities shine streams of lava, the last of which it 



* Ovvhyee and the Sandwich islands, La Mesa, or La Mira, 

 and Los Monges, of the old Spanish charts (San Francisco, of 

 Anson's chart might perhaps likewise be Ovvhyee,) must have 

 been frequently seen by the galleons on the voyage from 

 Acapuico to Manilla. It is to be observed that M. Marin has 

 not been able to discover, in the popular traditions of Ovvhyee, 

 any reminiscence of a former intercourse with European*. 



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