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canic demons when coming down on a torrent of lava. 
They could not believe that we had descended into 
the crater, or broken off pieces of P616’s houses, as 
they called the small craters, until the specimens of 
lava, &c. were produced, when some of them looked 
very significantly, and none of them cared much to 
handle them. 
We tried to convince them of their mistake in sup¬ 
posing Kirauea was inhabited, and unfolded to them, 
in as simple a manner as possible, the nature of volca¬ 
noes, and of their various phenomena, assuring them, 
at the same time, that they were under the sovereign 
control of Jehovah, the only true God. Some said, 
“ Ae paka” “ Yes, perhaps others were silent. 
Numbers of the people were present at our evening 
Worship, which w r e conducted in their language. 
After a very comfortable night’s rest, w r e arose at 
daybreak on the 5th. At sun-rise the people assem¬ 
bled more numerously than they had done on the pre¬ 
ceding evening, and Ī preached to them from these 
words,—“ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but 
that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation 
for our sins.” They appeared to listen with interest, 
and numbers sat down under the kou-trees, talking 
among themselves on the subject, for a long time after 
the services had closed. 
After breakfast we walked through the district, en¬ 
tered several of the cottages, and talked with the peo¬ 
ple. We also examined the effects of an earthquake 
experienced in this place about two months before. 
We were informed that it took place about ten o’clock 
in the evening. The ground, after being agitated some 
minutes with a violent tremulous motion, suddenly 
