A cocoanut
stump, faced by a sheet of copper recording the circumstance, is the
great circumnavigator's monument. A few miles beyond, is the
enclosure of Haunaunau, the City of Refuge for western Hawaii. In
this district there is a lava road ascribed to Umi, a legendary
king, who is said to have lived 500 years ago. It is very perfect,
well defined on both sides with kerb-stones, and greatly resembles
the chariot ways in Pompeii. Near it are several structures formed
of four stones, three being set upright, and the fourth forming the
roof. In a northerly direction is the place where Liholiho, the
king who died in England, excited by drink and the persuasions of
Kaahumanu, broke tabu, and made an end of the superstitions of
heathenism. Not far off is the battle field on which the adherents
of the idols rallied their forces against the iconoclasts, and were
miserably and finally defeated. Recent lava streams have descended
on each side of the bay, and from the bare black rock of the landing
a flow may be traced up the steep ascent as far as a precipice, over
which it falls in waves and twists, a cataract of stone. A late
lava river passed through the magnificent forest on the southerly
slope, and the impressions of the stems of coco and fan palms are
stamped clearly on the smooth rock.
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