returned thanks to the Great Spirit and to the good
white woman.

_The great fissure in the rocks is the canon of the
Big Horn River.

tron Bull avers, that when anything of note is about
to befall the tribe the image of the white woman

_ can be seen hovering over the peak of thé mountain

at ‘Crazy Woman’s Fork.’ He says the Crows have
never killed any of the whites, and his people say and
believe ‘that they are treated by the Government
agents worse than the tribes who give us all the
trouble.’

In other words, because they are peaceable, we need
not, as with others, to buy them off with presents.
And they say we have taken some of their lands and
given them to the Sioux, who were fighting and
destroying the whites as often as they could.

 

 

HAWAII.

—_o—_—

ry AWAIT, or Owhyhee, is one of the

, Sandwich Islands, discovered by
Captain Cook about one hundred
years ago. They are- thirteen in
number; of these eight are of im-
2" portance, Hawaii being the: largest,
Oahu, with the capital, Honolulu,
being the seat of - government,
Hawaii itself is somewhat smaller
than Yorkshire. It is chiefly famous
for its two lofty, snow-capped peaks,

‘called Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. There is also

another lofty mount:in, called Hualalai, which is ten
thousand feet above the sea: and near Mauna Loa

. there is a frightful. ever-active volcano, called Kilauea;

in fact, the whole island is voleanic, the huge moun-
tains being made of lava and such things as are thrown
up from the interior of the earth. It was in Hawaii
that Captain Cook was murdered by the natives, who
still point out the place where the famous sailor fell.
It is a-rock convenient for landing, in a bay; hard by
is the stump of a cocoa-nut tree, where he breathed
his last. The top of this tree was sawn off and carried
away by H. M.S. Zmogene, in 1837, and is treasured
up in the Museum at Greenwich Hospital.

The death of Cook happened as follows: On the
night of Felruary 13th, 1779. one of the boats was
stolen, and the captain went ashore the next day to
recover it. The natives were alarmed, blows were
struck and guns fired; the party from the ship found
it needful to retreat, during which four marines were
killed, and Cook struck down and overpowered. It
is supposed his flesh was eaten, but his bones were
recovered and buried in the sea with respectful sorrow.

On the stump of the tree is inscribed :—

NEAR THIS SPOT

FELL

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, RN.

WHO

DISCOVERED THESE ISLANDS
A.D. 1778,

 

 

 

 

A silvery cloud is seen hanging over the crater of
Kilauea by day and night. As evening closes in
you do not lose sight of it, for it is illuminated frou
beneath by the fiery waves of liquid lava, ever butting
furiously. .

‘The cloud of the voleano,’ says Captain Wilkes,
“lay before us like a pillar of fire to guide us on our
way. This was_as he and his party began the
ascent of Mauna Loa; they scrambled through dense
‘thickets, which ceased at about twenty-five miles
from the ccast. They then entered on a very desolate
country, from a vast plain of which towered up be-
fore them the grand dome of Mauna Loa. Masses
of clouds were floating round it, and throwing their
sh.dows on its sides. Before climbing this great
mountain, Captain Wilkes and his party visited the
volcano, which he calls a black, ill-looking pit, in the
midst of the plain. They walked to the edge over
cracked ground, from which vapours issued; and the
wind rushed by them as if it were sucked into the pit
to feed the mighty fires within. :

The captain was astonished at the size of the crater ,
big enough, he says, to hold New York. At the
depth of 660 feet is a black level, which the party
reached: and 384 feet below that simmers the ever-
molten mass, in an oval cauldron of great size.

After the acacia-trees were left behind, the country,
at about 8000 feet above the sea level, was covered
with low bushes, such as sandal wood. LExtensive
caves were met with, in one of which several sick
men were housed fora time: and all around was a
waste of hard, metallic-looking ground. Water was
scarce, the heat was great, and many of the party
suffered from sickness and he. dache.

As they neared the top of Mauna Loa the cold
increased, and they had some very dis.greeable
weather; the snow fell fast, and its weight broke
down the canvas roof of their tent, whilst a hurricane
whistled by in the darkness, scattering the eimbuis,
and putting out the candles. :

Christmas Day was spent by Captain Wilkes at
the very top, about forty feet from the edge of an oid
crater, which is now idle, put may not long remain so,
The day was snowy, and the night which fol owed
was the worst they had. It seemed as if hundreds
of persons were beating the tents with clubs. The
wind, too, made an awful howling over the edge of
the crater. It was so cold that water in bags froze
under the captain’s pillow. Luckily for the party,
provisions arrived from the ship, sixty miles distant,
and enabled the gallant Americans to stop long
enough in their bleak station for tne purposes of ‘'
observation.

Surpassingly grand is the view from Mauna Loa.
‘T never can hope, savs Captain Wilkes, ‘ to witness
so sublime a scene avain,’

He took an exact measurement of Mauna Kea,
‘the twin giant of the Pacific,’ as he calls it, and
found its top was 193 feet above the place where he
stood. The height of Mauna Kea was made out to
be 13,656 feet, and therefore Captain Wilkes ate his
Christmas pudding 13,463.feet.above his comrades iv
their ships.

What does our young readers think of such an
undertaking as this? Does it not show us what
perseverance will accomplish ? G. 8. Ourram