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mountain ridge, and travelers will always find the ride 

 through " the gap " a pleasant one. They can embark 

 on the steamer either at Koloa or Lihue, though the 

 latter place is preferable. 



THE SPOUTING HORN 

 Is one of the natural curiosities of Koloa. It is a lofty 

 jet of spray, which in a heavy sea is fully a hundred 

 feet high. The waves rush through an underground 

 cbannel and burst upward through an opening in the 

 lava rock, near the landing place, making an intermit- 

 tent fountain usually fifty feet high. This is accom- 

 panied with a sound sometimes audible a mile distant. 

 NIIHATJ. 



Justice demands a passing notice of this fine little 

 island, the westernmost inhabited island of the group, 

 — once populous, and now the property of Mr. Francis 

 Sinclair. It is used exclusively as a sheep ranch, which 

 numbers about 75,000 head. It is immediately opposite 

 or west from Waimea, twenty miles distant, always in 

 sight, but not easily accessible. It was formerly noted 

 for the "Niihau mats," woven from a fine grass, which 

 grows only on it, and which resembles the Guayaquil 

 grass, of which the Panama hats are made. Some of 

 these mats were woven in colors, and others had mot- 

 toes. They have become extremely rare, and like genu- 

 ine " Panama hats" are very highly prized. This island 

 was also noted formerly for the beauty of its land and 

 sea shells, hut the latter are now seldom collected by 

 shell divers on Niihau, or indeed on any of our islands. 

 Land shells are found on the mountains throughout 

 the group, and some fine collections of them have been 

 made by naturalists. 



