Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-05-03
NELLY BLY, OUTD0NE.
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG NEW
ENGLAND GIRL.
Climbing VOlcano--In a Tramp Steam
er to Japan.

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woman making the circuit of the globe,
the journey of a Massachusetts girl
completely overshadows the recent cut
and-dried trip of Miss Nellie BLY,.
Was this girl an Amazon? No, far
from it. With all her love for travel
and adventure, she never shouldered
rifle, nor even carried so much as a re-
yolyer or dagger during her wander
ings, but trusted to her unfal.ering
presence of mind and the protection Of
divine power. Her name is Abbie
M. White, her birthplace and home at
Farnumsville, about u miles from
Worcester, her occupation that of
supervisor of drawing in the public
schools of Providence, r. L., for the
young lady is a talented artist and is
graduate Of the normal at school of
Boston.
~ did not go around the world en-
tirely Alone" said Miss White to an in
terviewer, with downward glance of
her bright, dark eyes, ''for / had the
companionship of a young lady friend
during the greater part of the time.
This was Miss Cora Bennson of Quin-
cy, ILL.,, who was law student at Ann
Arbor."
After telling of her trip across the
the continent to San Francisco Miss
White continued: son Aug. II we
went aboard the Kalakaua, a sailing
vessel bound for the Sandwich Islands.
The ship was two weeks in traversing
the 2000 miles to Honolulu, and the
lady passengers numbered but four.
In telling of some of their adven-
lures in the Sandwich Islands Miss
White said: cat Walmea we had q
wild boar hunt, which was very excit-
} ing. Five bears were killed, for the
woods were full of EN-
"My friend and then went to the
seacoast, and at Hilo we were within
days journey of an active volcano
Mamma Loa. And, of course, We
: wanted to explore that, so up we went
Our japanese boy guide, who carried
lantern, would not go inside the
, crater, but remained upon its rim. W.
left our horses there, too. We took ;
zigzsg course down the precipitoui
; sides of the crater for about 1000 feet
before we got to the floor, which wa
not unlike ocean waves, or rolling
prairie, on its surface. This uneyel
floor was very warm, and it wa
scanned with cracks from one inch t
{ one foot in width, and up through
them came hot air in such volume a
! TO cause our skirts to stand ont balloon
I fashion. We went across the crate
, for distance of about two and hal
miles to one of the burning lake;
Helemauman, or House of Everlastin
Fire.
"There was before our eyes, and onl
le so feet beneath the place where W
n stood a great pool of red-hot laws
V about one-third of a mile in widtf
a This awful, angry mass would boil u
fiercely for while, and then cool TO
dull, leaden color, and huge fissurC
g would appear during the cooling pre-
T. cess. Suddenly, the surface would b.
m come red gain. and the huge bloch
j of lava would fall back into the sea {
fire and melt TO liquid. As we stoo
!. there, apparently at the very mouth
:; hell, shielding our blistering faces |
q best we could from the intense hea
night came on. Above us shone Il
- moon and the stars; around us we
e the walls of the crater, extending
:. thousand feet toward the sky, and ju
:, beneath us was that livid, kissing ma
ha of eternal fire. At night we lunch'
~ in the crater, with our backs to son
=. hot cracks in the wall.
~ "After a five weeks stay in t
Sandwich Islands, we took passage
tramp steamer for Hong Kon
c. China. We were the only ladi
aboard, and the captain surrender
az his stateroom TO us. The other ps
IT, sengers were a missionary, dissipat
ne Englishman and 500 Chinese. L
ship was three weeks on this voyage
-, about 1000 miles, and we improved
. chance to start missionary schC
es, among the Chinese. There were t'
lin deaths and burials at sea. We reach
ire China at the time of the war of Il
=, country with France, and we we
- warned that the Chinese blood "
IN. boiling, and that all foreigners appe
ed as Frenchmen to the natives. b
nc as we had planned, we went directly
n~- Yokohama, Japan, arriving there N
,eSd DAYS later; thence to Toxic, and
n that place engaged stage passage
n Nikko, 90 miles distant.
,ke "Returning to Yokohoma, we e
rn a steamer for Kobe, and then went
ass Hong Kong. At the latter place
on telegraphed to the missionary at G.
,st. ton, 90 miles distant, and on Chr
on mas morning we met him there.
ION told us that we must so back at o.
to Hong Kong, as our stay in Can
would be exceedingly dangerous ;
likely to cause an outbreak. He S
that he had not seen lady in
a. weeks. We wanted TO see more
Canton, and of the Pearl river with
pea so, 900 people living in sampans,
'om boats. AS / passed through the no
adv a military gentleman accosted
ors politely, and mentioned my chas
oms at being Obliged to leave Canton
The once. To my surprise and delight
rino told us TO stay, and that we woult
bnS safe under his guidance. He pro