New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-30
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| We have to-day later and fuller accounts of tho
last great eruption Of Nouns Los, of which my
last February 81 gave you the earliest rumOr..
The ,fesm OF lava has reached the sea in the short
| time Of five days, flowing distance of forty
mice and first filing up al immense valley in the
mountains, beside sending off numerous abortiye
side streams. Ii is still dischargng with undated
| vgOr
| Our vessel made the Kona coast after short
passage from Honolulu, not unpleasant 10 those of
Us who have been accustomed TO inter-islind nayi-
! CATION, and know how 10 expect the worst from Il
passage in n schooner of hundred tuns destitute
OF most of the accommodations which IN these
days, pertain to " floating palaces
few miles south of the weknOwn potato port
of Kawaihse We perceived the point of discharge
into the sea. A cloud Of steam rose in every fan
tastic form as the molten lay, met the briny ele-
ment, which, as if angry at this hostile intrusion
dashed the beach with a surf Of unusual violence.
The damage here sustained is insignificant. The
track OF the lava is over country OF old eruptOns
uncultiysted, because entirely barren, aud only
very rarely inhabited along the beach.
little hamlet wss destroyed-ousting perhaps
thirty natives from their th.tched hOuses-sud 4
grove of cocOs-nut trees-a much more serious
loss than the former.
We did not however, land here, Kailua being a
nearer place of access 70 = high point Of the lava
hOw as il is diagonal and not direct to the sea-
In this old port, the decayed capital Of Hawaii, We
dropped anchor. We were not unexpected. The
new wonder has brought to the natives market
for some OF their produce their horses and their
own services OF which they are not slow to avail
themselves.
We had brought our own saddle. aud our own
supplies, and we're soon provided with horses and
native attendants. Leaving the dry and arid beach,
We, step by step, attained to d region of yegets-
ton and a cooler sir, and were soon passing
through tropical region of eIuberant growth
gades of bread-fruit, varied b. the rich gloom Of
orange trees of golden fruit, crimson OAiss, and
profusion of creeping vines. Our path was rocky
and steep. and We mad time 10 see aud enjoy al.
these things.
So ascending with varying scene and climate We
reached camping ground az distance of perhaps
sixteen miles from the beach ten miles short of the
Orihce of the volcano and some thirty miles
from where i discharges into the sea and
near 70 the flowing lava. Night was the time for
observation. The before black and smoking mass
- then shone out IN hundreds of fiery illumnatons
and the fountain head disclosed fbya III d, Fen
varying from 2OO 20 zoo feet in hight and in diam
eter OF base 200 feet, IS We coniectured from an
examination al that disnnce through our glasses
The front OF the dow Is about 3, 600 feet ia width
sud slowly. irrresstiby pushes forward its high
red wall Ol FIRE, rising Oter hills and falling over
precipces with calm, irresistible power, which
humbes ard be.itties all human efforts. Above
the eIater rose continually a dense column OF
smoke 70 the hight OF perhaps, 10 900 feet. There
Was not, however, WNh thi, a. with the erupt.Ous
of Atua ard Nesugius, discharge OF cinders nor
peTceptbly even OF steam. The discharge was
confined TO the dense pure ard perfectly fused
heavy lava and 10 heavy powders projected far
above tie fountain, and falling sometime. back
sga-. !..o ~ .a.dIVI, al sc@eples without Tie