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the word spoken in this distant and desolate part 
of the earth, the power of God to the salvation of 
many that heard it. 
July 28th.—During the whole of yesterday, a 
beautiful spouting of the water had attracted our 
attention, which we found was produced in a 
manner similar to that we had witnessed at 
Kairua. The aperture in the lava was about two 
feet in diameter, and every few seconds a column 
of water was thrown up with considerable noise, 
and a pleasing effect, to the height of thirty-five 
or forty feet. The lava at this place was very 
ancient, and much heavier than what we had seen 
in Kona. The vesicles in it were also completely 
filled with olivine, which appeared in small, green, 
hard, transparent crystals, in such quantities as to 
give the rocks quite a green appearance; some of 
the olivine was brown. In this neighbourhood 
we also discovered large masses of porphyritic 
lava, containing crystals of felspar and olivine in 
great quantities, and apparently black schorls. 
The trade-winds blowing along the shore very 
fresh, and directly against us, obliged us to leave 
our canoe at this place. Mauae and his com¬ 
panions having drawn it into an adjacent shed, 
took off the out-rigger and left it, together with 
the mast, sails, and paddles, in the care of the 
man at whose house we had lodged : as he was 
also desirous to see the volcano, and, after an 
absence of several years, to revisit Kaimu, in the 
division of Puna, the place of his birth, he pre¬ 
pared to accompany us by land. 
Hitherto we had travelled along the sea-shore, 
in order to visit the most populous villages in the 
districts through which we had passed. But here 
receiving information, that we should find more 
