94 HA W All AN G UIBE B OK. 



The wind blew a gale over the snow-covered summit, 

 the thermometer fell to 13 ° Pah., and two men, a sailor 

 and a native, died from exposure. 



Mokuaweoweo remained inactive until August, 1872, 

 and on Sept. 2d of that year, a party numbering twelve, 

 of whom the compiler was one, left Honolulu by steam- 

 er, reached Kaalualu, Kau, on the 4th, obtained horses 

 at Waiohinu for the ascent and the trip to Hilo ; left at 

 9 A. M. of the 5 th, reaching Kapapala, distant 24 

 miles, the same evening. Thence at 3 P. M. of the 6fch, 

 the party with guide and five attendants began the 

 actual ascent, so gradual that in three hours, ten miles 

 brought them to the mountain station of this ranch, 

 where the party spent the night. At six the next 

 morning they left this last habitation, rode three hours 

 through a succession of ohia and koa groves by an easy 

 grade to the "camping ground," nine miles from the 

 mountain station, and sixteen from the ranch, at an 

 elevation of 7,000 feet. Here they left their superflu- 

 ous baggage, lunched and started afresh, following the 

 guide through bushes becoming more scanty, until at 

 the end of three miles, no sign of vegetation could be 

 seen. The face of the mountain is very rough ; the 

 remaining twelve miles leading over desolate lava rock. 

 At 5 P. M. Sept. 5th, after fourteen traveling hours 

 they stood on the brink of 



MO-KUA-WEO-WEO. 



This crater on the summit of Mauna Loa is in the 

 centre of its vast dome, nearly 14,000 feet above the 

 sea ; it is oblong and about 8,000 feet in length, by 

 Wilkes' survey of 1840 ; its eastern wall 470, and its 



