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ever, determined to leave the station in the morning, if I had to be led 

 down the mountain, which I thought very probable. One consolation, 

 however, remained : my physical energies had not given way until 

 every part of the objects of my ascent of Mauna Loa had been fully 

 accomplished. 



LAVA JET OF THE CIIATER. 



