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followed, and not a sign remained. Thus one after another 
fell till over two hundred were consumed. 
An incident which ought not to be omitted is the shower of 
ashes which preceded the eruption. During Monday night (the 
6th), prior to the eruption, the ground throughout the district 
was covered with a coating of fine sand and light pumice stone, 
of a light yellowish color. Where this shower of sand and pum- 
ice stone came from is as yet unknown, but probably from some 
vent hole near the summit crater. 
The tidal wave was much greater than before stated. It 
rolled in over the tops of the cocoanut trees, robably sixty 
feet high, and drove the floating rubbish, timber, etc., inland a 
distance of a quarter of a mile in some places, taking out 
to sea when it returned, houses, men, women, and almost 
everything movable. The villages Punaluu, Ninole, Kawaa 
and Horfuapo were utterly annihilated. 
4, Letter of Dr. Wu. Hitteprann, on the Crater of Kilauea and 
the eruptions southwest, published in the Hawauan Gazette. 
Dr. William Hillebrand visited the crater of Kilauea and 
the scene of the mud flow, and has published a very interesting 
the Kau road so as to render travel on it very dangerous. The 
low. Many smaller fissures are hidden by grass and bushes, 
forming so many traps for the unwary. The Volcano House, 
however, has not suffered, nor is the ground surrounding it bro- 
ken in the least, From the walls of Kilauea large masses of rock 
have been detached and thrown down. On the west and north- 
the walls there remain as perpendicular as they were before, 
but that this portion of the wall has lost portions of 1ts mass, 
_ Wall particularly, that the character of the crater has under- 
gone a change. Along the descent on the second ledge, large 
