The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-24
| HAWAII.
.ooure By the Crater
of Kilauea' -
.,tion of That Terrestrial
p attractions of the
Islands.
,,xo House, HAWAII, Il. l., !
lOLCAH0 ,,,bor 20 1891. {

,,,,yO House, hawai-, L. L"
''l'; September 80, 1891. !.
i, srRr: [ am stopping at
y, = tbe Volcano House which
,,,,nghIy picturesque spot.
,.sI is situated about three
IF miles from the crater of
.od at 1000 feet elevation
!. same. I have travelled
.Jssl in my life and have seen
> many wonders, but this is
;.,,z of them all. Vesuvius
=. q little bonfire alongside
;, lis size and fire. The gey-
,be Yellowstone Park are in
..,otin comparison. The actual
lake is a half mile across.
:tsrted from the hotel at 4
N the afternoon with a guide
,,ol there until s o'clock in
soipg. We looked down upon
of fire, about 500 feet below.
:, indascribable. the com
a the fire sounds like the
IN ocean, or sometimes like
fifteen trains roaring and
',o0 the rails. There seems
,.petion in the centre where
+5ing concentrates, and every
naThile it will blow up a col
/ fire ten to fifteen feet in the
fforms a crust along the edge
lake, which becomes q dark
about one foot thick, and this
n flow again to the center in
Ike ice in sizes of 20 by 20
nd as soon as these reach the
they are Immediately devour-
blown up in the air. All the
rable colOrs of fire, shades of
sar and beauty are to be seen
The human mind becomes
bed in its grandeur, SO it's al
impossible for a man to tear
II away. Some people stay all
The sky is lit up of a dark
like the reflection of the big
Chicago, one would think the
Twas coming to an end. The
EOf this place is the surround
d the tropical shrubbery, a
Ian spend a month here going
different mountains and vol
upheavals. Maunaloa is
By, which is 1890 feet
and where the great lava
Is in 1887 which covered
slls and thousands of acres.
Inst day 1 arrived here I
bought [ had struck Para
ut after [ saw the crater I
lIhad found Hades. There
bout a hundred pits from
Ire and birthstone are coming
(which will make any human
gamble when they first ap-
l. But it is still surrounded
.ltiful tropical foliage which
g be seen anywhere else. If
aid make a misstep he would
1ptated into the bowels of
ID, and those pits put me In
d how cunning and cute the
u in the world by making his
$50 beautiful for the poor sim
tall into.
bis crater there is a supersti-
E2ched which l omitted to ex-
The natives believe that their
8, whom they named Madame
shving in this crater, and
hey worship and give sacri-
various kinds, such as pigs,
: Of whisky, chickens, beauti-
eeaihS, etc. Even the educated
Worship Madame Pele. They
That when the goddess gets
me tears out her hair, which
vi IN every direction for many
This hair is molten lava
.ol by the wind, quite the ap-
Tce Of human hair, only it is
a,nttle, and which gives the
1aon for the natives belief in
@e Pele's hair.
Iled from Honolulu on the
w. L. Hall and stopped at
places on the different isl
~ landed at Punaluu where
G'ga over Sunday at a hotel
.%3iongs to the Volcano Com
;.u where [ found the accom-
~ Tar better than could be
~ Monday morning we took
, S;oT guage train to the sugar
@2l OF Pahala which is a won
aSlt to see in itself. This
, a wonder of the age. When
4 Sy'S of the track a couple of
i !. and lift it on, it puts me
Il IL some comical pictures in
i. runs : through a lava flow
u four miles.
p;, rahala we go on horseback
e., 70 the volcano and stop
halfway House for lunch.
e9 49, The present manager of
ss a1G = House, built this car
's. ~ nom the Hallway House
Sp 'tS ago, which no doubt
u t au impossible for any man
o @uy success of. As I was
S S.e the road [ felt that no
a su, could construct any
D. such y: a country without
b MI VI d superior power. The
slsr8 P us on this road look
u clouds or an ocean in
sSn 1 ~ I had pretty near for
aoout the new hotel built
n G mo- company, which is a
VIZ roa tse af This hotel will
&iap SoS,GGO dollars when
AdTs VIII = completed. It is
"a, ,"Ilu all fhO loL