HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII 
vast deep, and one can fancy how that huge pot must 
have boiled back in Tertiary times, when the red-hot 
lava of which they are mainly built up was poured 
from the interior of the globe. 
Softer and more balmy grew the air every day, 
more and more placid and richly tinted grew the 
sea, till, on the morning of the sixth day, we saw 
ahead of us, low on the horizon, the dim outlines 
of the mountains of Molokai. The island of Oahu, 
upon which Honolulu is situated, was soon in sight. 
It was not long before we saw Diamond Head, a vast 
crater bowl, eight hundred feet high on its ocean 
side, and half a mile across, sitting there upon the 
shore like some huge, strange work of man’s hand, 
running back through the hills with a level rim, and 
seaward with a sloping base, brown and ribbed, and 
‘in every way unique and striking. 
We were approaching a land the child of tropic 
seas and volcanic lava, and many of the features were 
new and strange to us. The mountains looked fa- 
miliar in outline, but the colors of the landscape, the 
soft lilacs, greens, and browns, and the whole atmo- 
sphere of the scene, were unlike anything we had 
ever before seen. And Diamond Head, what a fea- 
ture it was! Had it only had a head, one could 
easily have seen in it a suggestion of a couchant 
lion, bony, huge, and tawny, looking seaward, and 
guarding the harbor of Honolulu which lies just 
behind it. Into this harbor, in the soft morning air, 
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