HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII 
of Haleakala, two thousand feet deep, and many 
miles across, in which the shadows were deepening, 
and which looked like some burned-out Hades. 
We stood or sat on the jagged edge and saw the 
day depart and the night come down, the glory of 
cloud and sea and sunset on the one hand, and on 
the other side the fearful chasm of the extinct vol- 
cano, red and black and barren, with the hosts of 
darkness gathering in it. It was like a seat between 
heaven and hell. Then later, when the Southern 
Cross came out and rose above the awful gulf, the 
scene was most impressive. 
The crater of Haleakala is said to be the largest 
extinct crater in the world. To follow all its out- 
lines would lead one a distance of more than twenty 
miles, but it is so irregular in shape that one gets 
only a poor conception of its extent in a view from 
its brink. At its widest part it cannot be more than 
four or five miles across. It was evidently formed 
by the whole top of the mountain having been blown 
out or else sunk down in recent geologic times. The 
fragments of jagged rock that thickly strew the sur- 
face all about the summit look as if they might have 
fallen there. The floor of the interior of the crater 
is thickly studded with many minor craters, through 
which the internal fires found vent after the crater 
as a whole had ceased toact. They are of the shape of 
huge haystacks, with a hole in the top, and looked 
soft and yielding in outline, and in color as though 
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