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in this respect was, that there were, apparently, streams of pahoihoi 

 coming out from underneath the masses of chnkers wherever they 

 had stopped. The crater may be hkened to an immense cauldron, 

 boiling over the rim, and discharging the molten mass and scoriae 

 which has floated on its top. 



This day we received news of the arrival of Lieutenant Alden at the 

 Recruiting Station, with the detachment from the ship ; but he had 

 brought no provisions, and none had yet reached the station. This 

 arrival, therefore, instead of supplying our wants rather increased 

 them. 



The small transit was brought up this day, and, to add to my vexa- 

 tions, on opening it I found the level broken. I did not stop to inquire 

 by what accident this had happened, but within ten minutes des- 

 patched an order to the ship for another, which was distant sixty 

 miles. 



We received a supply of wood from below, and sent down water in 

 return. John Downhaul, a native, who was one of the party, desired 

 permission to return to the ship, as, according to his own account, he 

 was almost dead. Dr. Judd had met him with a number of natives 

 in a cave, as he came up, the morning after the storm. It appeared, 

 from John's account, that he had advised some of the natives to stop 

 and take care of him in their hasty retreat, but that he had only re- 

 tained them -with him by threatening them with the evil spirits of the 

 mountain. When morning came, they left him. He had been very 

 sick, vomiting and bringing up blood, and felt unable to move any 

 further up the mountain ; but having my portfolio, he did not wish 

 to intrust it to the care of another. Dr. Judd prescribed for him, 

 and sent him down, with directions to proceed to Hilo. On his way 

 down, Downhaul met one of the carriers of the provisions for the 

 consul's party, whom he stopped and began to question ; finding that 

 he was loaded with provisions, and being quite hungry, he told him 

 to put down the load, for he was the "tommodore's man," and must 

 be obeyed, and accordingly helped himself without stint, inducing the 

 native to partake also. When the man reached Mr. Brinsmade, the 

 articles were found to be very much diminished in bulk, and on 

 inquiry, the native at once told the whole truth, and how he had been 

 deceived. 



In the evening, at 6 p. m., the thermometer stood at 29°, and during 

 the night it fell to 22°. 



Christmas-day set in quite stormy, with snow and a gale from the 



