Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-25
In TIE CRATER.
A LkgY,S ACCOUNT OF THE VOL
CANO KlLAUEA.
n Graphic Recital OF Visit to the
Crater's Edge by Merry
Party.
Correspondence of the RrooRD-UNIoN.l

I
pers Of the volcano on Hawaii. Neverthe
less, invite the readers of the RECORD
UNION to accompany me in my recent
Journey there, and perhaps We shall be
able to see things in a somewhat new
If no better way, than have previous visit
Ors. Everybody knew here that large
party. forty at least, were expected from
San Francisco on the Australia, all of
whom were to spend the week up at the
volcano. To be sure felt quite anxious
about the matter, as / had come from
quite distance to take the trip and their
failure 10 come would mean no
TRIP TO KILAUEA
For an indefinite period In due time we
received the welcome assurance of the de-
parture of the island steamer Kinau at 4
o'clock for Hawaii On board, the usual
hustle and shouting, natives weeping over
departing friends and smothering them
with leis, or wreaths of flowers; people
hurrying about, and one young lady on
board the Likelike (about to sail for Maui
called across to another young girl on our
own boat:
d" And you are really going p"
g. Yes" replies our young woman
g All of the party?'
ooh, no; only four of US all the others
backed out"
Is it possible, thought, that Mr. Wilder
has consented to send this boat out Of her
way fully two hundred miles and be to
s.frf.l 10 dat l,,If
a dozen persons? What an extraordinary
man he must be- But so it proved. We
sailed, and we sailed. / dare say we got
over the waves in much the same manner
as Colridge's ancient parsonage, with the
difference that, instead of being hungry
enough 20 glare at our fellow passengers
with eannibal longing, we managed, or,
at least, two of our little party, subsisted
for two nights and nearly two days on four
soda crackers. Gracious, how disguised l
felt with the motion of
THAT VESSEL.
She was long, she was strong she was
fitted up with every modern elegance and
convenience, and yet-she would persist in
leaning down in the most friendly fashion
TO grasp the foamy hand of every wave We
ran across. We got on board, to be par
ticular now as to dates, on Tuesday, June
26, 1888, and arrived at our landing place,
Keauhou, Thursday, June 18th. The
first stopping place after leaving Honolulu
was Lahaina, on Maui. | felt the vessel
resting on quiet waters. and stepping out
on deck was gratifed by the lovely tropi-
cal scene spread out before us in the cool
quiet moonlight. We were in perfectly
uurufied bay, the vessels scarcely percep-
tible motion being welcome change from
the short choppy waves OF the channel We
had so recently crossed.
The soft, midnight moonlight rested on
a high sloping mountain with long, undu-
lating lines, at whose base stretched out a
long, dark line of trees and houses Lights
peered out here and there along the beach,
and dusky trees held out tall, upward
arms, or crouched in thick gloomy shadow
above the white cottages below. Coming
to us with swift, even strokes were num-
Der of boats, and
THE CREAKING OF ROPES,
The strange shouts of the native boatmen
and dull thud of boxes and bales as they
we're thrown from the "holep to the boat
below, mingled with the quiet plash Of the
ripples Of the bay, craving lasting lines on
memory's white brow Of midnight seen
in the tropics.
At daybreak we passed the eastern end
on Maui, and | was again on deck that
might witness the purple fingers of dawn
wreath with shifting crowns of beauty the
grand old head of Haleakala. So long were
we obliged to stay in port at each stopping
place, that the Captain decided to 90
around the kona side of Hawii else the
volcano passengers would not have time to
make their trip. The kona side is, in
sailor parlance, the Zee" side of an island.
consequently the sea was much calmer and
better to sail on. Although this was
disappointment, as we were anxious to see
Hilo and other towns scattered here and
there on the windward side, yet we were
glad that we should escape the rougher
way. Thursday morning at 8 o'clock
KEAUHoU Is REACHED.
"All ready for the volcano" called the
mate.
"Auright, answered half-dozen voices.
Down the steps, and,
"Be careful; jump-now-"
And I am safely thrown on to a seat.
Down come, more or less awkwardly, three
or four more. One gentleman in his hurry
steps upon q chicken-coop in the center Of
the boat, and, dear me, thereupon fell such
clatter Of splinters and legs, and talk
and shouts, and the ship lurched up and
then lurched down, and the PROSTATE man
twisted his head, and thereby almost tore
his eve out, else those steps would have
come down upon his head with more than
crushing weight. At last all are seated
and soor landed on the barren, rocky
shore
and are you going to the volcano"
says the young lady.
:tOh. yes" answer |, 'if baby allows it."
Then I am very glad, for thought l
should be the only lady"
a native hut close to the shore gives us
moments rest and shelter before we
mount our Jar from restiye steeds and trail
out, Indian fashion, and commenced the
rocky, tedious ascent of the distant noun
tain. The Professors eye bled freely, and
although mended with bits of court-plaster,
looks bruised and swollen still. By de-
grees we come to know each others names,
and l find that two Of the gentlemen and
one lady are the sole representatives of the
expected forty.
OF course, they are delegates from or to
the National Teachers Convention about
to be held in California
LET ME INTRODUCE,
Formally, as l was not, Professor Lyser,
of San Francisco; President Brown, of the
State University, Nevada; Miss Morrill,, a
young teacher who has come away from
the piney shores of Maine, in her own
brave and modest way, to carve life for
herself in the dazzling gold of CALIFORNIA;
sun. The fourth is Senator Cronin of the
State Senate, Massachusetts,. As for the
remainder Of the little party say not
Talk, bright and serious, ranging from
President Cleyeland's policy and the Chi
cago Cony ention to the proper accent given
to commonly miscalled words, is INDUCED
In So tha. hv the time We reach The