LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



no public accommodations here, and you are taken in as 

 may be possible. We were the first night at the house 

 of Mr. Walsh ; after the party went off I was sent for to 

 come here to Mr. Baldwin's. Mrs. Baldwin is a sister of 

 Professor Alexander, and both are children of early mis- 

 sionaries. ." 



JAMES D. DANA TO E. S. DANA 



" I am back again, as you see, from the volcano trip 

 none the worse for the ride excepting a scorching of lips 

 and chin by the hot sun. We refused to put on masks, 

 against advice and example, and hence the blistering. 

 Our party of eight were accompanied by a guide and 

 other natives to have charge of the pack-horses. Olinda, 

 our stopping-place for the first night, after an afternoon 

 ride of nearly four hours, is about six thousand feet above 

 the sea-level. It has three cottages built for summer re- 

 treats; one of them, the property of a brother of Profes- 

 sor Alexander, was ours for the night. These are all its 

 houses. Imported blackberry vines afforded us the best 

 of blackberries for the first part of our supper. Rev. Mr. 

 Forbes was occupying temporarily one of the houses, with 

 his family, and he gave me a hearty welcome, as he (then 

 seven years old) saw me at his father's in 1840, when I 

 had landed on the west side of Hawaii at Kealakakua 

 Bay (where Captain Cook was killed last century), on my 

 excursion over the island. 



' The morning found us well recruited by a night of 

 rest, and by eight we were off for the crater. It was up 

 over smooth ground, then rough with lavas, for the first 

 four hours or so ; and at last we were at the summit with 

 the crater two thousand feet deep and over twenty miles 

 in circuit directly below us. Its lofty walls and numerous 

 cinder cones of various shades of red at bottom make it 

 wonderfully impressive, and it became far more so after- 

 ward, when, farther to the southward, we had before us 

 the great northern gateway or place of last discharge, 

 nearly two miles in breadth, opening through the walls. 

 We finally commenced the descent at the southeast 

 corner, whence a cinder slope extends to the top, with 

 other cinder cones at the summit as well as at the bottom. 



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