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[LETTER IV. 



nized time for " calling." After supper, when the day's work is 

 done, people take their lanterns and visit each other, either in 

 the verandahs or in the cheerful parlours which open upon them. 

 There are no door-bells, or solemn announcements by servants 

 of visitors' names, or " not-at-homes." If people are in their 

 parlours, it is presumed that they receive their friends. Several 

 pleasant people came in this evening. They seem to take 

 great interest in two ladies going to the volcano without an 

 escort, but no news has been received from it lately, and I fear 

 that it is not very active, as no glare is visible to-night. Mr. 

 Thompson, the pastor of the small foreign congregation here, 

 called on me. He is a very agreeable, accomplished man, and 

 is acquainted with Dr. Holland and several of my New England 

 friends. He kindly brought his wife's riding-costume for my 

 trip to Kilauea. The Rev. Titus Coan, one of the earliest and 

 most successful missionaries to Hawaii, also called. He is a 

 tall, majestic-looking man, physically well fitted for the extra- 

 ordinary exertions he has undergone in mission work, and 

 intellectually also, I should think, for his face expresses great 

 mental strength, and nothing of the weakness of an enthusiast. 

 He has admitted about 12,000 persons into the Christian 

 Church. He is the greatest authority on volcanoes on the 

 islands, and his enthusiastic manner and illuminated counte- 

 nance as he spoke of Kilauea, have raised my expectations to 

 the highest pitch. We are prepared for to-morrow, having 

 engaged a native named Upa, who boasts a little English, as 

 our guide. He provides three horses and himself for three days 

 for the sum of thirty dollars. 



I. L. B. 



