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when they were overcome by the eruption, it was on the trail, 

 not far from Pun Koae, according to Dr. W. T. Brigham, 

 who saw some of the bones near that locality in 1864.* 



The eruption which proved so destructive to the army 

 probably was local in character, like the blast which destroyed 

 Saint Pierre in 1902, and may have come from the Cone 

 Crater, near Puu Koae, on the Kau desert southwest of 

 Kilanea. In the vicinity of the Cone Crater there is a very 

 fresh deposit of black ash, thread-lace scoria and lava droplets. 

 This deposit lies principally to the southwest, toward the 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 1. The ash bed at the base of the cliffs west of Uwekahuna. The 

 base of the section is concealed by the fresh pahoehoe lava on the floor of 

 the sink. Photo by H. B. Wilson. 



trail in question, and in the direction of the trade winds. If 

 the particular blast came from Kilanea, the configuration must 

 have been very different from the immense pit seen in 1823. 

 The violence of the activity of Kilauea in 1789 is not 



*The -writer is obliged to Dr. Brigham for information on this mooted 

 point as to just where the army was killed. David Douglas states that the army 

 was on the southwest side of the crater, when the eruption took place, and 

 that the eruption lasted for 7 days. (Jour. Roy. Geogr. Soc, iv, p. '3'SS, 

 1834.) ' 



