Sandwich.

On the largest of these islands, Hawaii--pronounced "Ha-y-e"--is the
volcano, Kilauea, the largest volcano in the world.

We have seen it a great many times, and that you may see it as clearly
as possible, you shall have a letter from the very spot. The letter
reads:

"Here we are, a large party of us, looking into Kilauea, which is
nine miles in circumference, and a thousand feet below us--a pit
about seven times as deep as Niagara Falls are high. We came
to-day, on horseback, from Hilo, a ride of thirty miles. Hilo is a
beautiful sea-shore village, the largest on the island of Hawaii,
and from it all visitors to Kilauea make their start.


"The road over which we came is nothing but a bridle-path, and a
very rough one at that, traversing miles and miles of old lava
flows. We had almost ridden to the crater's brink before we
discovered, in the dim twilight, the awful abyss.

"Before us is the immense pit which, in the day-time, shows only a
floor of black lava, looking as smooth as satin; and, miles away,
rising out of this floor, are a few slender columns of smoke.

"At night, everything is changed; and you can't conceive of the
lurid, demoniacal effect. Each slender column of smoke becomes
a pillar of fire that rolls upward, throbbing as it moves, and
spreads itself out above the crater like an immense canopy, all