T'. Coan on Kilauea. 101 
passing travelers reported a fiery girdle around the whole cireum- 
ference of Kilauea, along the base of her lofty walls—and, so in- 
old Kau and Hilo road which, as you may recollect, lay near the 
tance, 
; along to avoid it. The upper banks also of the crater are smok- 
| the glowing fires below, and to represent by a fact 
ks all fable, those Plutonic realms whete fire and dark- 
_ Again when the winds are free and the fires more pee ape 
suffocating mass of heat | Is_ off, 
along the shores of Hilo Puna, and Kau, and far off at sea. 
— Por twent e 
Upper precipice, and passed the great fissure at a respectful dis- _ 
And 
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