The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-01

witnessed, and could not get to sleep
hunted up book and concluded / would
pass the time in reading. The first chap
ter 1 came upon related several instances
of remarkable revelations made to men
through the agency of dreams, of roads
and houses, trees, fences, and all manner
of landmarks shown in visions, and rec
ognized afterward in waking and which
served to point the way to some dark mys
terry or other
''At length 1 fell asleep and dreamed
that l was abroad in the great plain that
skirts the Hale-mau-mau. l stood in
sort of twilight that softened the tone of
surrounding objects, and still left them
tolerably distinct. A gaunt, muffied figure
stepped out from the shadow of a rough
column of lava and moved away with a
slow and measured step, beckoning me TO
follow. l did so. | marched down, down,
hundreds of feet upon a narrow trail,
which wound it's tortuous course through
piles of pyramids of scanned and blacken-
ed lava, and under overhanging masses of
sulphur, formed by the artist hand of ma
ture in an nfinitude of fanciful shapes
1.-The thought crossed my mind that pos
sibly my phantom guide might lead me
down among the bowels of the earth and
then disappear and leave me to grope
my way through its mazes and then work
out my delverance as best l might; and
50, with an eye to such a contingency, |
picked up a stone and blaZed my course
by breaking off a projecting corner occa-
sionally from lava walls and festoons of
sulphur.
Finally we turned into a cleft in the
crater's wall and pursued our way
through its intricate windings for many
a fathom down toward the home of the
subterranean fires our course lighted all
the way by a rudy glow which filtered
up through innumerable cracks and crew
ices and which afforded me occasional
glimpses of the flood of molten lava boil
ing and Kissing in the profound depths
below US. The heat was intense, and the
sulphurous atmosphere suffocating, but
toiled on in the footsteps of my stately
guide, and uttered no word of complaint.
At last we came to a rugged chamber,
whose somber and blistered walls spoke
with mute eloquence of some fiery tempest
that had spent its fury here ages ago
The specter pointed to a bowlder at the
further extremity-stood and pointed, ST.
lent and motionless, for a few heeting
moments, and then disappeared. The
grave of the Great Kamehameha' is what
| heard. The words swept mournfully by
from an unknown source and died away
in the distant corridors of my prison
house, and l was alone in the bowels of
the earth, in the house of desolaton, in
the presence of death.
My frightened impulse was TO fly, but
stronger impulse arrested me to APP
proach the massive bowlder the spectre
had pointed at. With hesitating step. |
went forward and stood beside 1t. Moth
ing there, | grew holder and walked
around and about IL, peering shrewdly
into the half light that surrounded IT,
Still nothing. l paused to consider. While
l stood irresolute | CHANGED to brush the
ponderous stone with my elbow and 10!
Il vibrated to my touch. / would as soon
have thought of starting a kiln of bricks
with my feeble hand.
my curiosity was excited bore against
the bowlder and II still yielded. gave a
sudden push with my whole strength and
IL toppled from it's foundations with
crash that sent the echoes laundering
down the avenue passages of the dismal
cavern; and there in shallow excavation,
over which il had rested lay the crumb-
ling skeleton of King kamehameha the
Great. thus sepulchred IN long years by
supernatural hands. The bones would be
none other, for with them lay the rare and
priceless crown of pulamalama coral, sa-
cred 10 royalty, ana tabu to all else be-
sides.
"A hollow groan issued out of the -.
l woke up How glad / was TO know that
It was all a dream. This comes Of list
ening to the legend OF the noble chief, OF
reading those lying DEAN revelations, Of
allowing myself to be carried away by the
wild beauty of Kilauea al midnight Of
gorging TOO much pork and beans for sup
per. And so | turned over and fell asleep
again and dreamed the same dream pre-
cisely as before. followed the same phan-
tom guide, blazed my course. arrived al
the grim chamber, heard the sad spirit
voice, overturned the great stone, and be-
held the real crown and the doeaylng
bones Of the great king"