mountains have penetrated these forests and have appeared, of yee 
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vet mosses, luxuriant creepers hanging in festoons, the ancient fore 
trees and other tropical glories which were mirrored in its limpid we 
ters. We needed an artist and a naturalist to fix the glowing panety 
and to describe its flora and fauna. Wild cattle, dogs and hog 
the very confines of imprevements within five miles of our bay. 
wt to proceed. When we emerged from the upper skirts of 
woods on the third day, a dense fog obsiructed our view of all distant 
objects. We encamped early in a cave, but during the night the stars 
came’ out and we could see the play of the volcanic Gres from the sum 
mit to the base of the mountain and far down in the forest toward Hilo. 
‘The next morning, Friday, we left our cavern early, and at hal 
seven A. M. came ‘to the qos lava-stream. From this time to 
k n we 
red upon the stiffened and smoking lava. All this da 
the stream, sometimes on it and sometimes along its margin, as 
or the other track was the easier or the more direct. At night 
slept upon the lava, above the line of vegetation, with the hea 
our canopy-and the stars fer our lamps. From this high watch-lowe! 
we could see the brilliant fire-works far above and far below u 
dusatug fusion rushed down its burning duct, revealed here a 
by an opentag teat iI roc servi 
way in a subterranean channel, traced only by these vents. 
ard, these fiery vents were frequent, some of them t 
} fly or one hundred feet in diameter. 
