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encamped. Here they found excellent pasture for their horses among 

 the ferns, a great abundance of which had been met with on both 

 sides of the path, and were from four to five feet in height. 



At night, the temperature fell to 4S°, which was thirty degrees less 

 than they had left it on the coast ; and it was cold enough to sleep 

 under two blankets. 



The next day they arose at sunrise, when Mr. Hall and the natives, 

 as they did regularly every morning during the journey, prayed and 

 sang a hymn, before setting out. They soon passed beyond the woods, 

 and entered a country of barren appearance, composed of hard solid 

 lavas, in the crevices of which were found several shrubby Geraniums, 

 Vacciniums, Daphnes, numerous Compositse of a stiff rigid character, 

 and some small ohea bushes, — a kind of sweet whortleberry. 



On their route, many deep caverns were observed under the lava. 

 The signs of wild cattle and dogs were frequent : the latter seek 

 shelter in these caves. The cattle are now rapidly on the increase, 

 there being a prohibition against killing them until a certain number 

 of years have passed. 



After a day's travel, they reached the site of the ancient temple of 

 Kaili. These ruins lie about equally distant from three mountains, 

 Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hualalai. This temple is said to have 

 been built by Umi, who, with his wife Papa, is supposed to have 

 inhabited it, when he was king of the island. The three northern 

 pyramids forming the front were originally erected by Umi, to repre- 

 sent the districts of the island lie then governed ; and as he conquered 

 other districts, he obliged each of them to build a pyramid on the side 

 of the temple. 



This temple is represented in the adjoining plate. The main 

 building a, is ninety-two feet long, by seventy-one feet ten inches 

 wide ; the walls are six feet nine inches high, seven feet thick at the 

 top, and nearly perpendicular ; the partition walls are three feet high : 

 B and c are said to have been pedestals for idols ; D, e, and f, are 

 the pyramids built by Umi, eighteen feet high ; g is the residence of 

 Kaili's wife. Papa, also built by Umi. 



The five remaining pyramids, h, i, j, k, l, are those erected by the 

 conquered districts. All these are built of compact blocks of lava, 

 laid without cement. 



The building is said to have formerly been covered with idols, and 

 offerings were required to be brought from a great distance, consist- 

 ing generally of provisions. There are now no traces left of these 



