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cept in the people, who were just as 

 kind to us and made our stay with them 

 as happy as did our friends in Oahu. 

 As soon as we were nicely settled, we 

 made ready for the journey to Kilauea, 

 thirty-one miles from Hilo. The four- 

 seated stage, drawn by four horses, was 

 comfortable and the road as fine as the 

 government roads in our own Yellowstone 

 Park. Along the way, after we had 

 reached the dense forest, many new 

 plants were noticed. Datura arbor ea, in 

 full bloom and fragrance, was passed. 

 The most striking feature of the land- 

 scape was the bird's nest fern, Asplenium 

 nidus, perched among the branches of 

 the screw-pine and other trees, looking, 

 as its name implies, like the home of some 

 gigantic bird. Other smaller perching 

 plants, mostly ferns, mosses and liver- 

 worts, clothed tree trunks in the greatest 

 luxuriance. Ophioglossum pendulum was 



