eg : and after losing its course amid the maze of rocks, g# 
120 Eruption of Mauna Loa and Kilauea, 
forest. Seated on the trunk of a prostrate tree, we could su 
vey the whole field of devastation we had just traversed. In 
mediately at our feet the rocky framework of the pali eo 
crevasse, parallel to the wall and only partly visible, 4 ie 
‘ under the dense trees, To our left, a clear, spal#"= 
mountain stream leaped in a bouncing cascade over pe 
depth of | 
the cuts in the hill sides, there seems to be no greaht” 
to explain how such enormous masses of earth, at first by 
