desolate bits of sand was more evident to the scientists than to the 
officers and crew of the Tanager* eager to make certain of a return to 
Honolulu in time to celebrate the fourth of July in port* and King and 
called me the "sand opihi" (opihi is the Hawaiian name for the 
limpet) for obstinately 
on until the last possible moment to 
give time for ample oolleotions of interesting specimens 
One day we went out to the rooky islet, which we named La Perouse 
rock* where wo found the true "opihi" and other rook inhabitants of 
interest* This pinnacle rook is one hundred and fifty yards long by 
one hundred and fifty feet high, and may be scaled at the western end 
We contented ourselves by landing on a rock ledge on the south that gave 
aooess to the southern face* The surf-boat swept along a low ledge in 
a gentle swell with men leaping ashore at every favorable opportunity 
and then backed off to stand by until we were ready to leave* Hock 
pools filled with salt water sheltered colonies of sea-anemones veritable 
gardens of living flowers rock inhabiting terns perched on the scant 
foothold of narrow 1 edges; One specimen that we took fell from dohlearner's 
t* ^ 
hand and way torn to bits by a sohool of savage black trigger-fish as soon 
A 
as It hit the water* 
The voloanio rook was blaak in oolor, coriaceous in texture* 
and so finable aa to make olimbing dangerous* Light whitish or yellowish 
encrustations* seepage from the bird guano on the summit in places formed 
heavy crusts or small stalactites* Wo Imagined this lonely rook tnh he 
remnant of a larger island of voloanio origin and speculated on the length 
time that might elapse before it would finally(be beaten into the sea by 
the ceaseless gnawing of the ever restless surf* 
