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were not injured. Doors facing southwest were swuno- open and 

 hanging lamps were left swinging for ten or fifteen^minut'es in 

 almost every instance in the same direction, viz. from northeast to 

 southwest. Considerable crockerv was broken, and heavy articles 

 of furniture displaced. The usual roaring sound preceded this 

 earthquake. Persons who were on board ships in the harbor 

 report that they heard this terrible roaring sound far out ;it 

 sea, and then the ships that lay farthest out were first struck and 

 afterward those that lay at the wharves. Thev agree that the 

 vessels were first drawn violently out to sea and then in the 

 opposite direction. 



Several persons of undoubted veracity insist that they saw a 

 flash of light on Punchbowl hill the moment before the earth- 

 quake commenced. At Waialua at the north end of this island 

 the shock was comparatively slight. At Waianae on the N. W. 

 of this island, the earthquake was severe. Quite a landslip took 

 place, cai-rying a house several rods. At Koolau, milk was thrown 

 out of pans east and west. The schooner Annie in the channel 

 south of Lanai was terribly shaken, and her bulwarks split amid- 



uere, lue groun( 



• adobie houses ii 

 ►J. iu. jjiBiiup of Lahainaluna oemmary givt 

 The direction of the vibration was from s 

 ing to some from S.E. to ¥.W. 



At Molokai the shock was severe, especially at the western ( 

 The road up the great pall of Kalaupapa on the north side 

 rendered impassable. 



At Wailuku, on the east side of West Maui, the earthquake 

 much less severe, stone walls being thrown down 



but no serious damage done. The time by my father's clock, wdueli 

 is set by the sun, was 10^' 20'" p. m., equivalent to about 10'' 15'" 

 Honolulu mean time. At Makawao on East Maui the shock was 

 slight. At Capt. Makee's, on the S.W. side of Haleakala, it was 

 much less severe than at Lahaina. A train of molasses kettles 

 was displaced, which was about the only damage done. The 

 earthquake along the west coast of Hawaii was almost simultane- 

 ous with that experienced here, and about equal to it in severity. 

 From Kohala I learn that the shock seemed to come from the icest, 

 that some stone walls were shaken down, but the stone church and 

 plantation chimney remained uninjured. We hear the same story 

 from Waimea and Kawaihae. From Kona, Mr. Parke writes, that 

 the time of the shock was \Q>^ 5"' by his watch (which is probably 

 within five noinutes of the true time), that stone walls were thrown 

 down, but no great damage done. At Hilo the earthquake was 

 much hghter. According to Judge Hitchcock it took place at 



_ From Kaxiai I hear that it was severe at Koloa on the^ south 

 side of the island, but less severe and light on the north side at 



