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Identifier: onesummerinhawai00math (find matches)
Title: One summer in Hawaii (electronic resource)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Mather, Helen
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York : Cassell Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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ee a live volcano, andour party was divided up, and the frac-tions sandwiched into vacant spaceshere and there. I was assigned a singlebed in a room occupied by two otherladies, who, when we arrived, were atthe volcano. ?;/> ONE SUMMER IN HAWAII. For obvious reasons I dined in bed,and remained there after dinner; notto sleep, however, for the walls werethin, the guests loquacious, and thelaughter loud. When silence did reign it wasbroken shortly after by the returnof the party from the spectacularshow. My room was invaded by the twoladies who were to share it with me.They each glared at me in turn asthey entered, to discover, perchance, ifI was harmless. The one was tall andangular and old, and was addressedas Auntie by the other, who wasyoung and round and rosy. Auntiemoaned and groaned and ejaculated,Oh! why did I come, but was ONE SUMMER IN HA WAIL 237 finally disrobed and rubbed andanointed and tucked away. The otherfollowed suit, and then the real busi-ness of the night began.
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CHAPTER XXIV. VISIT TO THE SULPHUR BEDS AND BATH —. THE VISITORS1 BOOK THE LAVA BEDS THE VOLCANO RETURN TO VOLCANO HOUSE. Happy was I to awake the nextmorning refreshed. The stir of prep-aration was oroino- on about me ; even11 Auntie was chipper, and when, anhour later, I saw her ride away fromthe hotel in good spirits I was pre-pared to say, with Sancho Panza, Blessings on him who invented i sleep. Breakfast over, we walked to an extinct crater about one mile distant 238 OXE SUMMER IN HAWAII. 239 from the inn. The cup of this crateris covered with a white vegetablemold which resembles plush. Upon our return we turned aside tosee the sulphur banks and bath. Thisdeposit is condensed from fumes whichissue from fissures in the earth, and inconjunction with alum and other saltsis found in great quantities. Thereare also strata of red, yellow, and blueochres. The bath-house is placedabove a steam jet which issues di-rect from Plutos domain. So angryseemed the powers below that wewalked

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