his former wife still living, and warned him, therefore, against getting entangled with the woman he loved. He immediately, in consequence, became an object of suspicion to the makai, or native constables, among whose duties is that of looking out for offenses, with a share in the fine of those found out. Ziba, finding himself thus watched, and catching, one night, a man prying about his premises, demanded his name, held him fast, and made an alarm, till his friends brought a light, and he found it was a constable. The next day he was summoned to a hokolokolo, as it is called, an investigation before the lunakanawai, and fined for insulting an officer. Mr. Paris had to interpose, lest the man should receive gross injustice.* Thus it comes to pass, in some * The religion, morals, civilization, and the administration of justice among the people of Kau, have greatly improved within a few years. As late as June, 1849, the missionary writes from there concerning a Temperance Celebration of the Protestant Schools, just before a visit from the King, that the whole number present, including parents, children, and friends, amounted to nineteen hundred or two thousand persons. "It was a delightful day, and we had the stillest and most orderly feast, for so many children, that I have ever witnessed. The children were also all clothed neatly, most of them in uniform. I could not but think how differently these children appeared, with their bright and happy faces, from what they and others did eight years ago, when I first came among them. Then there was scarcely a child in Kau who had a shirt, or any other article of clothing of foreign manufacture, and many of them were more destitute of covering than the beasts of the field. "When all had feasted and spent a little time in pleasant, social intercourse, we were marched to the house of God, where we had several short but very appropriate addresses on the subject of temperThese were accompanied with temperance songs and instrumental music; after which we closed with prayer. ance. HAWAIIAN DISABILITIES. 279 cases, if a man is censured in the Church, the officers proceed to get him before the courts, and if a man is fined or punished for any thing before the lunakanawai, the hoahanau are wont to think he must be disciplined also by the Church. The poor Hawaiian thus gets hung on both horns of a dilemma; or if he navigate clear of Charybdis, he is by no means sure of saving shipwreck on the rocks of Scylla. "On the Sabbath following the King addressed our Sabbath school, and was followed by appropriate addresses from Dr. Judd, and Mr. Cooke, formerly a native of Tahiti, the King's chaplain. To-day the King has attended a meeting of the people of this district. The assembly was held in a beautiful grove. His Majesty made a speech of about an hour, which was listened to with the deepest interest. He alluded to the sovereign love of God in sending the blessed Gospel to his fathers; to his providential care of himself and his subjects in past years; and he referred to this Gospel, as preached by the Protestant missionaries, as the source of all their blessings and privileges, and the only foundation and safeguard of their civil and religious liberties. His appropriate and deeply interesting address was followed by others from his ministers."—Miss. Herald, March, 1850. CHAPTER XIV. EXPLORATION AND REVIEW OF THE VOLCANIC CRATER KILAUEA. AN upland isle, by molten streams embraced, It tower'd to heaven amid a lava waste; World Before the Flood. If a man come for the first time to the eastern part of Hawaii by the way of the volcano of Kilauea, his brain, and body too, will have gotten such an impress from its tremendous fires, and his imagination will be so engrossed with the novel and stupendous displays of nature which his eyes have been beholding, that it will be some days before he can think or talk of any thing else. It will not be strange if he visit it again in dreams, and stand upon the blackened brink of that stupendous crater, and descend once more, in his sleep, into that great pit of fire, TRIP TO THE VOLCANO. 281 Whose combustible and fuel'd entrails, Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds, With sulphurous stench and smoke. I have found myself thus exercised ever since arriving at Hilo, at the close of last week, and, though suffering sorely with feverishness and general mauvaise, induced by exposure, fatigue, and excitement, I am anxious to record first observations before their vividness and zest shall have at all abated. We left Waiohinu the first Tuesday of the year, Mr. Paris having anticipated his quarterly communion by one week, so bringing the sacrament and monthly concert on two successive days, in order to accompany me and make the tour of that part of his field at the same time. Through the favor of Providence, we had fine weather, although it rained early in the morning, and threatened a storm. The horseback ride, and the more favorable climate of the sea-side and Punaluu, soon proved invigorating, and restored, in a measure, the tone of languid nature. The path from that village goes up very gradually to the volcano, distant from Waiohinu about fifty-five miles, of which we went the first day about thirty, stopping that night in a little mountain hamlet, at the house of a Church-member of the name of Jakobo. Arriving there before our men, we went down into a valley that serves, in rains, for a tumbling watercourse, and, after refreshing ourselves with a bath, we kneeled upon the rocks at even-tide in prayer to that overruling and wise Providence, who, leading us in a way that we knew not, had strangely brought together, in this volcanic heart of the Pacific, two quondam class-mates in the School of the Prophets. Returning, we found the natives of the village assembled for a meeting. Their pastor read the Scriptures, prayed and sang hymns, and addressed them at some length on their duties and the way of salvation. It was a pleasant meeting, in the open, still air of evening; Mauna Loa towering up to the northwest, the evening star pouring down its mellow radiance, the blue abyss of ocean faintly visible in the distance below us, and the illuminated cloud of the volcano just beginning to reflect its beams. Sleep scarcely visited me for the night, but an early departure next morning, and the fresh mountain air, revived the spirits. Our ride was, for a long time, through banana-trees, ohias, ko-us, and a species of mimosa, until we came to an immense field of smooth, flat, unbroken lava, called by the Hawaiians Pahoehoe. It was once evidently a great upland lake of mineral fire, seeming to have been suddenly congealed into a vitreous black rock, while its billows were still rolling, as if it had suddenly heard the voice of God Here shall thy billows stiffen, and have rest. Not only are the large swells and hollows distinctly marked, but in many places it is to be observed that the surface of the great waves is ruffled by a ripple like that seen on the ocean in a calm, at the first springing up of a light breeze. There are interspersed a few tracts of volcanic sand, shining with crystals |