HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII 



of Haleakala, two thousand feet deep, and many 

 miles across, in which the shadows were deepening, 

 and which looked like some burned-out Hades. 



We stood or sat on the jagged edge and saw the 

 day depart and the night come down, the glory of 

 cloud and sea and sunset on the one hand, and on 

 the other side the fearful chasm of the extinct vol- 

 cano, red and black and barren, with the hosts of 

 darkness gathering in it. It was like a seat between 

 heaven and hell. Then later, when the Southern 

 Cross came out and rose above the awful gulf, the 

 scene was most impressive. 4 



' The crater of Haleakala is said to be the largest 

 extinct crater in the world. To follow all its out- 

 lines would lead one a distance of more than twenty 

 miles, but it is so irregular in shape that one gets 

 only a poor conception of its extent in a view from 

 its brink. At its widest part it cannot be more than 

 four or five miles across. It was evidently formed 

 by the whole top of the mountain having been blown 

 out or else sunk down in recent geologic times. The 

 fragments of jagged rock that thickly strew the sur- 

 face all about the summit look as if they might have 

 fallen there. The floor of the interior of the crater 

 is thickly studded with many minor craters, through 

 which the internal fires found vent after the crater 

 as a whole had ceased to act. They are of the shape of 

 huge haystacks, with a hole in the top, and looked 

 soft and yielding in outline, and in color as though 



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