242 Volcanic Eruptions of Hawait. 
more compact and smooth lava, lying along the borders of the 
, - new stream. Here we moved on rapidly, at the rate of three and 
a half or four miles an hour. As we had left most of our cloth- 
ing and food, with all our water, behind, and as we clung to the 
hope of reaching the original point of eruption—a vast, active 
crater, within a few hundred feet of the highest part of the 
mountain—we felt it necessary to press hard and improve every 
moment, as we must return the same day, or probably perish with 
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t noon ' of our native attendants, who were una- 
to keep up with us in our rapid and forced march, and we 
= -preath- The lava on which we were treading gave indubitable 
evidenge of powerful igneous action below, as it was hot eo full 
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