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and yellow buntings and many gay- 

 colored lanterns, and were plunging 

 madly back and forth on their fastest 

 steeds. Imagine our dismay at being 

 led through this gay scene by our two 

 cavaliers ; but there was no help for it, 

 and one of the two horses suddenly 

 became alive to the fact that something 

 was going on, darted forward and ran 

 under a low flume, thereby nearly wip- 

 ing his rider from the saddle. 



The next day being the "Fourth," 

 we celebrated by walking straight from 

 Pahala to the beach, over four miles 

 of the roughest pahoehoe lava. As the 

 shore rocks were steep and high, we 

 were not able to do much collecting, 

 but the booming of the waves was won- 

 derful, and except that sound there was 

 perfect silence. We felt that we were 

 standing on a very young earth and 

 were seeing, as it were, the first attempt 



