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our descent from the mountain, and arrived at the half-way 
houses, where we remained to sleep, at one o’clock. We 
suffered much less on our return than on going up; partly 
from the comparative ease of descending, and partly, too, 
from being in better training. On the 1st July we re¬ 
crossed the forest that had cost us so much on our first 
day’s march, and early in the afternoon reached our com¬ 
fortable lodging at Byron Bay, nothing loath to be again at 
ease, though delighted to have seen the great Peli 
The repairs of the ship being now completed, we pre¬ 
pared to leave Byron Bay, and our hospitable friend, the 
queen Kahumanu, issued orders for procuring supplies of all 
kinds for us. The purveyor, Sir Joseph Banks, immediately 
set about provisioning the ship, wooding, watering, &c. with 
the greatest goodwill and activity; and besides what he 
provided, the munificent Kahumanu delivered over to Lord 
Byron a considerable tribute brought to her by the moun¬ 
taineers of the Island. Six hundred of these people came 
* Peli, or Kairauea, on the flank of Mouna Itoa, is not the only volcano still 
in action, for one of the craters of Mouna Worarai still emits smoke. The 
crater visited by some of Captain Vancouver’s companions bears marks of 
having been active at no great distance of time, and in 1800 a great eruption 
from some of the craters of Worarai took place, which overwhelmed several 
villages, destroyed fields and fishponds, filled up a deep bay twenty miles in 
length, and formed the present coast about Kairua.—See Ellis, p. 29. 
