The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-09-21


m-n, began TO crop out. aud certain itIe plots
et. a tr-I and last chance at the grub. aud a sharp
lookout Tor 80 J. By s o'clock We were either 20
bed L. 60 gazing our Oh at the lurid glow on Tie
mountain above. or tL- still brighter light from
kiIsu-a DO fhr level distance beyond.
LEAVING ELLIs'
At g O'Clock the next Saturday morning. in three
hgurs ws reached the camp at the edge Of tue
woOls Within a mile Of this place, before reaching
IL. We came across "a large water hole where our AMI
mails drauk a. If they had a suspicion Of the fact that
they would get no more for the next t~hirty-six hours.
On our way up Ee passed through clumps u kOa,
with here and there a sandal wood, aud many Ohias;
clambering over them was abundance Of the native
slrsapIrilla vine with It's graceful sprays Of deep red
blossoms Pill grass was very abundant, and straw
berries 70 b found every where On the edg- u the
thick WOOD at an elevation Of 300 feet, We could
look well down into kilauea. and over the broad eI-
pause Of country stretching from Kalae Point on our
right. O. Kappa on the left. a distance Of something
over thirty miles IN a straight line from point 20
pint Leaving this resting place al lpsl5 A. 3D.
after c~1ctsIHg half our eatables and water, we soon
emerged from the woods and debouchei upon a ire
ineuicu- field u p~0hOehOs, Oyer-laid il places with
streams u a. The ascent Il gradual and unceasng,
and though ~ times heavy mists driftei over and
around us, yet our guide led Us steadily onward and
upward for an hour when we paused 20 rest Then
we noticed for the hrst time a curious change in the
sound Of our voices. The tones were echoless and
dead, and u seemed al times az though another
mans voice was articulatei through ones mouth.
~ a short time the guide moved on again, by in
stinct apparently, especially when the mist closes IN
heavily. but every now and then traces could be seen
Of the party who had preceled Us by q few days The
stiffness WIS oppressive, only broken at times 10y
what Mr.. Mautilini, IN his mangle-turniug days
would call one demned Internal grind 80 Of the
horses feet on the gritty pahOehOe, but a. we could
see the smoke Of the crater JefOre-Hlbeit above-us,
We felt u-suTei Of the general direction At the eE-
piratioH Of another hour We rested again, and while
commenting upon the probable length Of time that
H.. aNmRn n.HuW uwwUNA -fLHh. Hhn h.
ri waste, Eferyescent Bob laid a wager with The
Historian, that in 300 years there would be a desira-
be farm where we then stood. We bound ourselves
10 b. witnesses to the result, and moved on.
THE LAVA FIELDS
OF this region exceed in witness and confusion, the
most eXfravagant nightmare ever inflicted upon
mortal man. For miles on either hand, behind and
above. great billOwy masses tossed and twisted into
a thousand g~rOtesque shapes meet the eye. Huge
terrace after terrace is surmOunted, and still before
US rise new rugged outlines to be overcome. I'm
mense bubbles have slowly risen from the confused
masses and burst. and yaWned apart. Swift run
ming streams Of molten lava, have cleft straight
burrows through the CONCEALED surface. Massive
flows have fallen in, exposing new depths of Jagged
outlines; at times we skirt the sides Of great streams
Of a-a, that have rushed down over everything, and
heaPed high ragged mounds Of brown scoria into
impossible walls Winding around the base Of tossed
up hillOcks Of rounded ~pahOshOe, traversing the
surface Of what was once a widespread lake that in
cooling has cracked and rent its floor into u thousand
gaps and assures; painfully tOlllng up the slues OF
mounds Of debris, and again for miles surmOunting
the rounded surfaces Of billOwy lava, the road leads
on, and ever upward. Ii was rough Walking for
half an hour run the pulse uD to l65 beats per
minute, and while resting the average rate Of those
who had been riding was 100 beats per minute. But
little nausea or - mountain sickness " was felt, but
all were more or less troubled with a turgid sensation
In the head. some ringing Of the ears, and all
breatEel quickly, with frequent strong inspirations
to fill the lungs a slight cut on the finger of one of
the party bled very freely, as did the abrasions in
hicted on the horses heels by contacts with the rough
lava. The surface Of the lava, if broken by the
horses hOOfs, presents no netC appearance, and an
attempt by one Of the party 10 trace, for even a few
rods, the apparent track ended invariably in ignO-
minious failure. 4 { such times, an amused express
sion fitted across the shrewd countenance Of our
guide. as he, without = moments hesitation moved
into the 8 TRAIL and we quietly followed. / say
quietly adyisedly, for all our faculties were now con-
centrate1 in the occupation Of breathing, and look
ing towards the ever distant summit smoke. At
last, after five hours Of toll, we rode through n rude
gateway formed by two gigantic masses Of upheayed
lava rock. and reached the edge Of "A rough pail,
from which ne looked out on
THE SUMMIT.
Before us lag q rugged plain about two miles in
with delds Of brown a-d. and everywhere torn into
uuheard ni shapes by the fierce power that had up
hruvcd the whole. To our right rose a remarkable
monument or pillar showing black against the sky.
% every hand yIwued deep cTevices. and spent
waves OF lava had dashed together in a myriad
shapes and 50 CONCEALED. HurTying on as well as
We were able. we finally reached a ctl-de-sac.
formed by a branching an flow. and here we dis
mounted. and tetheTed our animals for the night. This
done. we took our way five hundred yards over a
narrow strip Of rugged lava, and all at once stood
upon the edge Of the