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gulur outline, mistaken for a mountain, though only three hundred feet 

 or so in elevation. It proved a continuous ragged lava-mass, of light 

 and cindery consistence throughout ; the summit containing a cir- 

 cular pseudo-crater, some three hundred feet in diameter by two 

 hundred feet deep, with thin and very steep walls. The atmosphere 

 having been cleared by the rain, there was a fine view of the route 

 of the recent Eruption ; the position of the sun rendering conspicuous 

 the columns of rising steam, which extended in a perfectly straight 

 line towards a point a little Eastward of the Nanavali sand-hills. These 

 were in plain sight : and a white speck occasionally making its appear- 

 ance at their base, could only be the surf; visible notwithstanding the 

 distance, estimated at " thirty miles." The split through Kanenuyo- 

 hamo, the Third lava-mountain, was shown by rising steam to be half- 

 way down its Northern slope : and it was now perceived, that the line 

 of the recent Eruption was not exactly parallel with, but obliquely 

 intersected the line of the lava-mountains. 



Kanenuyo-hamo, the Third lava-mountain, intercepted the view ; 

 being much larger and loftier than Puhuru-huru ; and according to 

 native testimony, having a pseudo-crater in its summit. — The Fourth 

 lava-mountain, Ohaiauru, about halfway to the Kaimo path and in 

 plain sight, was also said to have a pseudo-crater in its summit. — 

 The Fifth lava-mountain, Keren, was spoken of as beyond the Kaimo 

 path, and as destitute of a pseudo-crater. — The Sixth lava-mountain, 

 Koruakaveri, was subsequently pointed out to me ; a long eminence, 

 which somewhere contains a pseudo-crater, with a pool of water at the 

 bottom : " in which fishes will live so long as the water remains of a 

 green color, but the water sometimes turns red, when the fishes all 

 die." — The Seventh lava-mountain was called Kopohu ; a lump on the 

 sea-side, at the Northeastern extreme of the island, and not far from 

 Nanavali. — On another occasion, the First lava-mountain, halfway 

 between the Great Crater and Puhuru-huru, was found by myself to 

 be about a hundred feet high ; but its pseudo-crater extending down- 

 wards a like distance below the surrounding plain, and some four 

 hundred feet in diameter. Between this and Puhuru-huru, I visited 

 another ragged lump of lava ; which, though only seventy feet high, 

 evidently forms a part of this series of lava-mountains. 



Descending from Puhuru-huru, I crossed the main path, and pro- 

 ceeded to the sixth pit-crater; called Arare-iki, or the "little Arare;" 

 being circular, nearly a third of a mile in diameter, and about five bun- 



