T. Coan on recent volcanic disturbances of Hawati. 95 
island on three sides, about five miles long. The ocean line 
completes the island. On this narrow belt of land, three 
houses are standing near the shore, and here, also, Capt. 
Brown found and rescued some thirty head of cattle, after the 
flow had ceased. Several cattle died, and those which sur- 
vived were terribly heated by the inclosing fires. 
he features where the lavas entered the sea are like those 
at Nanawale in Puna, and like many other places. There 
was, probably, a small conical island formed a little distance 
from the shore, soon after the stream went into the water ; 
nk, or parent stream, from which all the lateral branches 
had been sent off, the trunk somewhat resembling the palm of 
the hand, and the branches the spread fingers. 
We visited the place where Capt. Brown’s houses once 
great seething river below; and all the trees and ferns wer 
consumed or charred. At length we descended again upon the 
ere, there was a little heat, and white puffs were seen scat- 
ly apart, on some parts of the flow. 
shows marks of the raging volcanic fires. There is every evi- 
— of the fury of thie fatllam, when it was in full blast. 
fre may have been a great crater here, with many ori- 
a fices and fiery blow-holes ; but if so, they ’are all filled and 
obliterated. ‘Wha | 
ne we pe ton —— great eg e “7 a 
‘ng irregularly from the head of the eruption for two and 
ge i therly direction. This I traced 
im a forest, but the fires have cleared out the thicket, so 
