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A VISIT TO llOTO-MAHANA. 
supposed, fell in ; the other, without hesitation, jumped after 
to rescue it. The place has ever since been “ tapu.” 
These wonderful works of the Creator, while they excite 
our admiration, cannot be looked upon without awe: it is here 
we see a portion of the grand laboratory of nature, where the 
process of resolving and renewing is constantly going on; here 
we see how easily soft and impalpable powder can be cemented 
into solid stone, and the apparently indestructible rocks be 
either softened and reduced to mud, or sublimed so as to fly 
off in gas. 
COOKING AT A BOLLING SPRING. 
