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very frequent and very severe, he remained only two or three 
ours, ile he was camping, that night, on the great sand- 
lain southwest of Kilauea, the clouds were lifted from the 
mountain, and he saw a great river of lava pouring down its 
southern slope in the vicinity of Waiohinu or Kahuku, and 
entering the sea near Kaalualu bay. At Kilauea he could see 
neither fire nor smoke in thecrater. Last evening (Thursday), 
with two other white men and several natives, he sailed on the 
sloop Live Yankee, bound for the coast of Kau, hoping to be 
able to rescue all who are still endangered by the volcano. 
Since last Saturday evening, the earthquake shocks at this 
place (Hilo) have been infrequent and very slight, but the 
mountain still smokes furiously. I should have mentioned the 
fact that in the morning of the day after the great earthquake 
we could see that there had been small eruptions of earth in 
the margin of the forest all along the side of the mountain, 
from the high land above Mr. Richardson’s house to the hill be- 
hind our house, a distance of four miles or more. The tract 
covered by the great eruption was nearly a mile wide and three 
miles long, forming a bank of moist, clayey soil fifteen or 
twenty feet high. It looks precisely like a great bank of red 
and brown clinkers (the aa of the natives). A stream of water 
18 how running through it, and far below toward the ocean. 
In the earlier letter of Mr, F. S. Lyman, (dated Kau, March 
st,) addressed to D. B. Lyman of Chicago, he writes as 
lows: 
spray of red lava high in the air; and thena great column of 
smoke rose straight up thousands of feet and arched over to 
the east; in a few minutes a new jet was thrown up a little 
Soon followed by another, and then by a fourth ; and soon the 
ted lava began running down the sides of the mountain in four 
steams, in a southerly and easterly direction. About seven 
O'clock we began to hear a roaring sound which grew louder 
and louder until the air seemed to tremble with the incessant 
roar of the volcano, but finally it subsided and ceased entirely 
about eight o’clock. But before that time the clouds had shut 
Wn on the mountain so that we could see nothing more then. 
About noon we began to feel slight earthquakes, and during the 
hight they were very frequent, some of the time, every minute or 
two; though very slight, they were sufficient to prevent sleep, for 
