The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-12-19
The Great Eclipse.

The GuIwin. letter. thoughit cIur- after many
similar communication j. Undressing 80. I.utuI-
gheuv GA tire IA Cast. SIuth # I;,mL1y. Aug.
-, lsG-.-Thc wonderful eclipse, which AL the
-avans IN EGrJpe have oymc over here o witness,
took place this morning. IsutnagLcTry was IN
the centre % the line, and we were ml-tfJrtuuate,
a. you -hah hear. W lad asked ilc - come
up tJ liz bungalow on the bill. where / should
get the advantage of biz transit instrument 20 90
halETa-t I've I awoke. g1t up. AMI walked 90 biz
house. which / reached at seven. | LEFT this
about twenty minutes % -cven-c.JuGy. and the
prospect ct rain very evident but on reaching
the bungalow the sun bust out. and ! was hailed
with q great welcome fT having brought tic -un
with me soon after TIE clouds gathered IN the
mot tantHLzing manner at last, at about a
quarter o. eight. the -lu came cut. and there Il
wa, O~ver-iad1wei slightly. II kept going 10 aud
ont, and the shadow Increasing more and more.
the clouds all round getting darker and darker,
and we were laughing 80 the idea % tie darkness
becoming total. We kept watching the shadow
whenever the sun gave u n peep until there was
the lintc-t thread visible below. This thread
was very beautiful the new moon l. nothing 10
the golden light Of this thread. Then suddenly
10 became quite dark. The -enzatIDn was most
eXtraOrdfnnry-w all looked - strange. surround
cd by this unnatural gloom. The cocks and hens
and ducks quietly went of into their house 20
TUost but the clouds showed no sign Of breaking,
and the iOtality was the thing 70 -ec. Suddenly
we all shouted, There there - and there ii
Wa met bs-AAAlll-ls NC SUI II blalGk ul4l- AiL dAl
arDuDl 1t the iaiutcst light, and ON the edges two
cXcre-eences Of the most exquisite pink and red.
For about two minutes We guzed at this, and then
-uddeuly-almO-t a. sudden - the Hash % q dark
lanteTu-thc light spread over the earth again
with such q genial and grateful food. There was
something very unnatural about the darkness. /
out % the mu--al, IN fun, - light the
AMI the lights showed bright in tie bung-
alOw a. they 10 at night. IL WIS certainly IL
lark ~ night. We saw Venus showing with her
beautiful light, and the clouds scudding over her.
more than 300 years there will be no such
again. What are these horns that pro-
-rude2 Are they from the moon or from the sun?
The beautiful color j. what i - wonderful and
these horns must be millions Of miles in length
Or " % b. able % see them ~ all. The Hood Of
golden light which burst upon the earth was very
the unnatural darkness seemed dispellcd ~
81 magic. and during the darkness 10 see the
tars coming % the rescue with their light. IL
made one feel more utterly a thing VI nothing
han ! have ever felt able 10 realize before II was
grand. W-had a very good instrument,
when the cclipec was total. binJcular glasses
bert 70 see il through, and for some seconds
be cJlJT- and the cXcicsccnccs were plainly vi>i-
lc with the naked eve. The darkness came ON
radually. and il was before it was total that the
ImI- we're lighted IN the room. but OF tJtality il
ras - dark that walking back from the hem
ouse ] was obliged @ pick my way, tie ground
eng rocky. OF course everybody here J. full Of
he ecliE-e, and a2seem 10 have seen and been
truck with much te same thing that / have
Id you"