. A sketcher's tour round the world. had worn his hoofs down to thequick. I rode him for four miles where the path was soft,but then had to dismount and lead again. The wretchedanimal would do anything to avoid placing his feet on thehard stone, and several times put them into deep cracks inthe lava, where there was grass. In one, he sank up to hisshoulder, and in another he fell down, and gave us a greatdeal of trouble to get him up. When I reached the half-way house, he could go no farther, so I left him there, andturned him out, determined to accomplish the remainingdistance, eighteen miles
. A sketcher's tour round the world. had worn his hoofs down to thequick. I rode him for four miles where the path was soft,but then had to dismount and lead again. The wretchedanimal would do anything to avoid placing his feet on thehard stone, and several times put them into deep cracks inthe lava, where there was grass. In one, he sank up to hisshoulder, and in another he fell down, and gave us a greatdeal of trouble to get him up. When I reached the half-way house, he could go no farther, so I left him there, andturned him out, determined to accomplish the remainingdistance, eighteen miles, on foot, and I had walked at leastsix before from Kiruea, a hard journey after being so longout of practice, both from my stay on ship-board, and myhaving seldom walked in South America. I arrived at Hiloat 8 , completely knocked up. We weighed anchor directly I arrived on board the yacht,about 9 , and sailed out with a light breeze; but we didnot lose sight of the masts of the Ohio, lying in the harbour,all the next ^ CHAPTER XIII. WEST MAUI AMEKICAN HOSPITALITY SUGAR PLANTATION STU-PENDOUS CEATER SUNSET ON THE MOUNTAIN LAHAINA CURIOUS CUSTOM AT HONOLULU NATIVE BURIAL-PLACES THE MISSIONARIES. We were off East Maui in the morning, and at 3 anchor off the town of Lahaina, in West Maui. Theisland consists of two huge mountains joined together by aflat narrow isthmus of sand. West Maui is like Oahu,broken by deep ravines; but East Maui is one huge moun-tain, of its original conical shape. At the top is an immenseextinct crater j and Dr. Rook had given me such an ex-traordinary account of it, that I stayed at Lahaina on purposeto ascend it. On making inquiries from some American store-keepers in the town, who all assisted me in the kindest way,I found the ascent of Mouna Haleakala, for so the mountainis called, was quite practicable, but would take four days; soallowing the Kings yacht to sail for Honolulu, I remained P 2 212 AMERICAN HOSPITALITY. behind, t
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