remained on the summit of the mountain during the night. The
early portion of it was passed by Tom and the boys seated round the fire
with the missionary, who told them that they would find little
difficulty in returning to Honolulu, where they would soon, probably,
find a ship sailing for England.

While they were speaking they were aroused by a brighter light than
usual, and on going to the edge of the crater they perceived that the
numerous cones, in the centre were now in violent action, some emitting
flame, which darted upwards to a height of fifty and a hundred feet,
while boiling lava flowed down the sides of others into the lake, out of
which they arose like so many islands.

Kapoiolani came out of the hut to witness the scene. She remained calm
as before, and quieted the fears of her attendants by observing--

"I know in whom I trust. Even should the lava continue flowing, many
days must elapse before the crater is full, and long before it is so we
shall be in safety. Pele has nothing to do with it."

Having watched the eruption for some time, Kapoiolani and her female
attendants returned to their hut, while the rest of the party gathered
round their camp fires to spend the remainder of the night.

After breakfast, having plucked more of the berries and again descended
the crater, they proceeded down the mountain.

On reaching the camp where the chief body of her attendants had
remained, she addressed them, and urged them from henceforth to dismiss
all thoughts of the pretended Pele, and other false deities, from their
minds, and to trust alone to Jehovah, the only true God, and His Son
Jesus Christ, whom He had sent into the world to die instead of them,
and to reconcile them, His outcast children, to Himself. With one voice
the people shouted out, "There is no such being as Pele; Jehovah is the
only true God; we will serve Him!"

The news of the pious and heroic Kapoiolani's visit to the mountain of
Pele was carried through the island; and the people from henceforth
acknowledged that they had been foolishly frightened by believing in a
being who had no existence, and were everywhere ready to listen to the
addresses either of the missionaries or of their own chiefs who had
turned from idols.

It is a remarkable circumstance that in the Sandwich Islands the chiefs
set the example of overturning their idols, and were generally the first
to accept the truth.

After visiting several places on the co