Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10
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tcovelUDrn FROM FIRST raet.l

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST rAGE.l
It covered the whole western end Of lava and
the south Of sumalrl for hundreds Of miles with
= fall Of impcneuabls darkness. - Following
At no great interval, and somewhere between
ten and twelve O'Clock in the forenoon Of the
same DAY, either by successive rapid outbursts
of by one single supreme convulsion, the sub.
teuanean powers burst their prison walls with
a defamation so terrific as to have been, as it
seems, inaudible from It's very immensity 10
human ears in is close vicinity, but which
spread CONSERVATION among the jewellers
within a circle whose diameter Law across nearly
3.ooo miles OF 50 degrees Of longitude.
With sunrise on the 18th the dense curtain
which had enveoped so wide an area in dark.
ness began to clear on and the light broke on
scene Of devastation Of the saddest kind, but
on one Of comparative plaeiditf, as Il nature
lay exhausted after her frantic paroxysm.
krakatau was seen reduced 20 a fraction Of its
original size. To the northnard, however
two new pieces Of land, which have received
the names Of Steers and Calmeyer Islands
raised their tops 10 the surface Of the sea
where, the morning previous, 90 to 30 fathoms
Of water had existed. But where the vol
eano had been so active a few hours before,
sea fathomlsss with line Of 900 feet Is nov
to he found.
Having thus followed ~ succession Of
events there remains little doubt that the
crater, on the 10th Of August, by its constant
action, had either cleared out the old funnel
into It's submerged portion, OF that rent by
subsistence OF Otherwise was formed, through
which q volume Of water was admitted to the
heated interior, resulting in explosion after cx.
plosion in increasing violence as more mate.
rial for generating steam was finding its way
into the underground recesses.
The first great waves on the evening Of the
26th and the early part Of the 27th were pro.
baby caused by portion Of Krakatau being
shot out northwards for eigh, miles and drop.
ped where We now have Steers Island while
the appalling defamation in tina, forenoon and
the greater wave accompanying it resulted
perhaps from that still more titantic effort
which lifted the greater portion Of Krakatau-
several thousand million cubic yards OF mate.
rial-out by its I7o fathom root, hurled it
through the air over Lang Island and plunged
1t in the some seven miles to the northeast
where Calmeyer Island now blocks the chan.
mel which mariners have known so long as
the East Passage. : While the tide guagcs
have recorded their story, the delicate fingers
of the barometrc registers Of the world have
also borne uninnuenced testimony of similar
kind.
Almost coincident with the record OF the
abnormal atmospheric fluctuations, magnificent
sunlight effects, lurid skies, prolonged dawns,
heightened twiligh,s, and green or blue or
moon.like suns began to be observed. From
the dates at which these phenomena first APP
peared in different parts Of the world, on the
east coast of Africa on the second day, the
Gold Coast ON the third, Trinidad on the sixth
day, 1000 miles in the Pacific west Of
Panama on the seventh, and at Honolulu on
the ninth day, it can be seen that the volcanic
cloud followed straight path
To what height the supreme outburst pro.
PEELED the smoke dust, and the lighter por-
ton Of matter, it is impossible at present to
estimate. Mr.. Whymper saw Cotopaxi, in by
no means one Of its extraordinary exprations
eject column over 20, 600 feet in height but
many multiplcs Of this distance will doubtless
be required to measure the spire that was shot
skyward on the forenoon OF the 27th of August
last AT all events, it rose so high that months
have been required for it to descend. Those
places situated below the direct westward
path Of the cloud which would be elevated at
first as a narrow column, as they were carried
under it by the eastward rotation OF the earth,
were the first to have the usual light of the
sun changed into ominous displays or delight.
full aiterglows, This narrow band gradu.
ally spreading out north and south enabled
the inhabitants of all lands to obtain view Of
the gorgeous effects OF broken and absorbed
sunbeams, and a demonstration Of the yastness
OF the power OF imprisoned steam
Mr. Bishops views differ somewhat
from those given above Ed.