. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. nt by thegovernment for the purpose. The loss of the whalingfleet in the Arctic seas, in 1871, was a great blow to theislands, estimated in dollars as two hundred thousanda year when the trading in supplies fell off. Over athousand sailors of the thirty-three abandoned shipswere brought to Honolulu in the five ships that escaped. In the chapter of misfortunes during the reign ofPrince Lot, must also be classed the death of C. Wyllie, a Scotchman who had been in the serviceof the government for twenty years; a man of greatlearning, e
. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. nt by thegovernment for the purpose. The loss of the whalingfleet in the Arctic seas, in 1871, was a great blow to theislands, estimated in dollars as two hundred thousanda year when the trading in supplies fell off. Over athousand sailors of the thirty-three abandoned shipswere brought to Honolulu in the five ships that escaped. In the chapter of misfortunes during the reign ofPrince Lot, must also be classed the death of C. Wyllie, a Scotchman who had been in the serviceof the government for twenty years; a man of greatlearning, energy and sagacity. His funeral was heldOctober 30, 1865, and his remains were placed in theRoyal Mausoleum. The following night all the coffins 280 HAWAII AND ITS PEOPLE. of former kings and chiefs were removed to the newplace of royal entombment. In 1868 the summit crater of Mauna Loa sent forth aflow of lava, attended by many shocks of last, on the 2d of April, a terrific shock did moreor less damage on the whole island of Hawaii. It. ROYAL MAUSOLEUM, HONOLULU. caused a mud flow, moving so fast that it buriedthirty-one natives and more than five hundred a tremendous tidal wave, forty or fifty feet high,rolled in upon the coast of Kau, Hawaii, sweepingaway villages and destroying cocoanut groves. Morethan eighty persons perished at once. To add to the PRINCE LOT. 281 terror, underground streams of lava poured throughfissures toward the southwest, and the center of thegreat crater fell in, forming a pit three thousand feetlong and five hundred feet deep. Again, on the 7th of April, lava broke forth from thecentral crater of Mauna Loa, at a point fifty-six hun-dred feet above the sea. The molten mass flowed tothe sea, ten miles in two hours. This eruption lastedfor days, destroyed several houses, several hundred cat-tle, and overflowed four thousand acres of good can hardly imagine the sensations of the three menwho were imprisoned for several
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