Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-07-04
lion. it's stiffness, in which we heard Sbe

ion. it's stiffness, in which we heard 6be
throbbing Of our hearts, wove their potent
int1u nee around US like q spell.
Our little g1o p of humanity seemed like
II speck il vice universe we falt lost In
iIlimitsble srace. Above us Yves the sky:
round US, but far away, the sea, reaching
Ike blue wall to our horizon; below as,
be dim gray dYpths Of the crater. At our
Aight--ten Thousand feet above sea.level
we seemed upon the summit of the
world but OFF to the southeast, beyo.id the
Intervening sea end above the cloud bank
concealing their base, rose the two noun.
ain-peaks of Hawaii-Maura Kea and
Niauna Loa--fve thousand feet above us.
Their long slopes were covered with snow,
which the cold light Of the dawn tinged
With pale blue. They appeared not to
est upon the solid earth, but to be hung in
SIR.
A line of fire marked the edge Of the
ieecy white clouds that lay along the east.
'sn horizon and the sun came into sight
hove them A warm, rosy glow bathed the
:uowy SUBMITS of Msuna Kea and Mauna
.oa, brightness cleaned upon the sea, and
he depths of the crater below us were
iooded with light. Behind us lay q vast
hadow, reaching even to the peaks of West
Maui. 1t had been calm since we reached
he summit, but now the wind began tc
Use, making hollow means in the cones and
averns around and below us. The cloud
ank on the sea, stirred by it, wavered an6
rifted apart. Presently large white
loud ioated slowly through one OF the
APPS into the crater. 1t was followed by
mother and another, until vast irregular
recession filed into the House of the Sun.
It first the clouds came slowly but as the
Wind increased they came faster and faster,
Ike an army of giants rushing to battle, yet
yithout a sound. They massed themselves
the crater, half way between the bottom
md the rim, hiding the cones from our
ight and presenting instead billowy floor,
whose feecy whiteness reflected the morn.
ng sunshine. This was the last movement
n the grand pageant, and our attention,
eleased from the spell that had held it, re.
lerted to ourselves. The glow Of the vio.
ent exercise had passed. and we were shiv-
ring with cold. A pocket-thermometer in
Heated twenty eight degrees-four degrees
,elow the temperature of freezing. Wrap
ping our blankets about us, we began the
lescent, the native bow pausing to gather
With his numb and trC m ling hands ball
IF snow, to exhibit to his tropical compan.
ions at sea.leve.- The appearance we pre-.
Eented as we stragg'sdic VI q. m ountain'
side, the corners of our red and green
Nlanlets catching On the bushes and jagged
ocks or trailing behind us, has often
owed us to laughter since hut at the
ne we saw nothing comical.
--ster w.-un hreaksast at TIE cave, VIC
'Juuted our horses and began the GOWN
rd journey. There were no clouds on
le mountain. and IN the long descent from,
la cold and desoiate heights to the WARMTH
d tropical luxuriance OF sea-level we had
maynihcent panorama before us. Reach
ng once more the little village of oleandcr
looms and rushing streams, we felt as Il
ve had returned TO the atmosphere of daily
life from some remote aud ~xal.sd regiun
of opiritual existence.