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garments for a sudden change. The party should by 

 all means go prepared with food and blankets to spend 

 a night, in order to enjoy Sunset and Sunrise 



IN THE HOUSE OF THE SUN. 



The singular clearness and purity of the atmosphere 

 at this great eleyation, the immense circuit of the hori- 

 zon, make the magnificent view of the day hardly less 

 attractive at night. The sunlight strikes this point 

 first, and leaves this point last. When candles have been 

 long burning at Wailuku, the western horizon holds 

 clouds still tinted with orange, vermilion, violet, purple, 

 cornelian, amethyst rose, the eastern horizon has lit 

 its stars, and the South exhibits the Southern Cross. 

 The first morning and last evening rays cast shadows 

 and outlines in the vast crater pit, the rough profile of 

 the opposite bank, a most peculiar and striking sight, to 

 which is doubtless due the origin of the name Haleaka- 

 la. The sunrise is most grand and wonderful, rising as 

 it does from this elevated horizon, that seems suspended 

 midway between the zenith and the shores of this vol- 

 canic cone, whose summit stands ten thousand feet 

 above. The artist to paint this landscape is yet to 

 come. The writer who shall put its picture into 

 "thoughts that breathe and words that burn" will be 

 thrice welcome to " Haleakala, the House of the Sun." 



A LADY'S DESCRIPTION. 



From a recent volume,* we copy the following 

 graphic description of this scene : " The sunrise turned 

 the densely packed clouds below into great rosy masses, 



* " The Hawaiian Archipelago," by Miss I. L. Bird ; London, 1S75. 



