HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES 



Pali and Waialua, visiting the chasm of Kaliuwaa and the 

 calcareous bluffs of Kahuku. They sailed homewards on 

 the Australia August 3Oth. 



The entire journey showed the qualities of a masterful 

 mind. Undertaken purely for the acquisition of accurate 

 knowledge, it was a brilliant example of scientific enthu- 

 siasm and of undaunted resolution. It was not " en- 

 dowed research " that inspired him, nor a government 

 appointment, nor curiosity to revisit the scenes of his 

 early studies, nor a desire for fame, nor the duty of a 

 station, nor the love of mountain-climbing, nor health, 

 nor recreation. Science allured him. For her sake he 

 crossed a continent and an ocean, ascended lofty peaks, 

 and exposed himself to wind and weather, at a time of 

 life when another man would have said, " I have done 

 enough ; let me stay in an easy-chair! " But Dana never 

 grew old. He tired; he needed periods of long repose; 

 but his spirit was inexhaustible. Whenever his brain 

 was rested and his body refreshed, he was up again and 

 at it, to the end of his days as resolute and enterprising 

 as he was in youth. 



Accounts of the journey were promptly published in 

 the Journal of Science. Side-lights on the expedition will 

 here be given from the letters of some of those who 

 accompanied the traveller. 



A brief extract from a notice of the arrival of the party, 

 published in The Friend, at Honolulu, draws a sharp con- 

 trast between the earlier date and the later in the means 

 of travel and the condition of the islands : 



" How great the changes in the forty-seven years both 

 in America and Hawaii ! The Golden Gate was then an 

 almost unexplored passage, and Honolulu a town of 

 grass and adobe huts, with scarcely a tree. No steam- 

 ship had then ever visited the Pacific Ocean. Our mails 

 were then five months in coming, and now are only twelve 

 days. There are very few of the old-time people left to 



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