with the box, and has a valve with which to regulate the heat. This is said to take out the aches, but I did not experience much relief. I felt refreshed but not healed. We rose early the next morning, and at 6 A.M. were ready to gallop off towards Puna, on our way home: which is thirty eight, or forty miles ride in one day. This is a hard, rough road over pahoehoe and a-a. These are the names of two distinct kinds of lava. There, going down the steep side of the mountain, and along the plain, we could see the different lava flows, ancient and recent, and of every formation. We stopped at noon to rest ourselves and our horses at the house of a very respectable native: near the seashore, where was one of the principal places of destruction, at the time of the terrible earthquake and tidal wave in 1868. There the ground rose, then sunk, and the sea came in scores of people, houses, gardens, cattle &c, into the sea