What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

618 FURTHER PHENOMENA OF VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
prosperity planted by the hands of ancestral wisdom. Truly
did the gory flood recently bursting from the mountain's side
illumining its own hideous carnival, blasting plains, levelling
hills, and filling valleys, leaving no trace of the wondrous beauty
of this Eden, seem but a type of the red carnage in which is
being written a history of horrors, and which threatens general
ruin to the hopes of a great people. Recalling the records of
fratricidal strife, more terrible than those of international war,
the heart's prayer from that dread river of death ascended often
that night for peace. Aye-as sung by one whose harp was
then attuned to melodious measures, but whose now " discordant noises jarrest the celestial harmonies" of his younger
muse
"Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals
The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies!
But beautiful as songs of the immortals,
The holy melodies of love aise.
"Were half the power that fills the world with terror,
Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need of arsenals nor forts.
"The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
And every nation, that should lift again
Its hand against a brother, on its forehead
Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain! "
We rose to welcome the dawn, and enjoy in the chill
morning air the grateful warmth of a glowing bed of coals from
a quarter of a cord of wood thrown on by our Kanaka cook.
Having taken breakfast from a table as black and polished as
ebony, we struck tent, packed camp-traps, and started again
over the deseirt of lava for the Wailuku River, which it was proposed to descend to the natural bridge which spans it some
miles below. A short distance from our camping ground the
lava was found to have been piled up to the height and shape of a
considerable ridge; formed probably by the blowing up of tunnels by the confined streams, and the subsequent additions of the
congealing currents, bearing on their bosom the broken masses