Notice of Hawaii^ {Owyhee,) and Us Volcanic Regions, ^c. 231 



ing this part of Hawaii from that of every other island in the Pacific 

 which the traveller had visited — presenting its broad lawns and dark 

 groves, in lights and shades of exquisite beauty, and in every variety 

 6f verdure, from that which seemed almost white to the deepest 

 green. 



From the lofty, but primitive looking chapel, as a centre, the hum- 

 ble dwellings of the fisherman and the farmer were seen, widely scat- 

 tered in every direction ; some skirtiilg the beach, as it swept round 

 in the beautiful curvature forming the bottom of the bay ; some hang- 

 ing on the cliffs of the bolder shores ; some just peeping from the 

 thick foliage of a grove more inland, or slightly screened by the shade 

 of a small clump or single tree; and some, again, standing unshelter- 

 ed and alone, in the midst of a wide spreading field. Such was the 

 foreground ; while behind, an extensive country, marked in two or 

 three places by old, long extinguished, and now verdant craters — rose 

 gradually for miles, to the stately forests enriching the broad bases of 

 Mounaroa and Mounakea, both in distinct view — the first appearing 

 far in the south, above and beyond a line of green forests, in one long, 

 regular, and distant arch of blue — the last, seemingly near, and tow- 

 ering loftily against the western sky, in irregular and broken summits 

 of gigantic magnitude. 



The admiration of all on board, says Mr. Stewart, was greatly ex- 

 cited by the scene, which, in the simple luxuriance, of natural beauty, 

 was one of the most rich and lovely. 



As is almost invariably the case in this district, heavy showers of 

 rain fell during the latter part of the niglit and morning. 



On the 9th of October, the party which had been formed to visit 

 the volcano at the foot of Mounaroa, thirty five miles inland from the 

 harbor, commenced their tour. There were eleven gendemen of 

 the ship assisted by twenty natives and a servant or two, and their 

 route was that which is exactly described in Mr. Stewart's former 

 volume. We shall, as far as possible, use his own language with oc- 

 casional abridgment, and such slight modifications as may be neces- 

 sary to connect the facts without injuring the sense. 



We accomplished, says the author, fourteen miles just after four 

 o'clock ; and finding at that distance excellent accommodations for the 

 night, determined to sleep before proceeding farther. The establish- 

 ment — consisting of three houses, situated a short distance from the 

 road, on the borders of a fine tract of land, having very much the appear- 

 ance of a large plantation of intermingled arable and meadow grounds at 



