Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-10-25

neat ana as we go nearer the crater IL gets
notter. We all went within Is feet
IL this large flow and as the lava was
80 hot 1t made the girls with their thin
'oied shoes, dance and jump and began
10 turn their feet, SO they got frighten-
ea ana retreated to a cooler place,
leaving us men with Mr.. Lee, |
proprietor of the "Volcano House"
who had accompanied US He stated |
that in his long experience he had |
never seem the crater so full
and wonld take us up if he could find
safe place. After hunting around a
few minutes he motioned for us to
come, and we climbed up the side of
this embankment which is 20 feet high,
and then were standing within one foot
of the fiery lake. This embankment is
nearly perpendicular and as it is Jet
black reminded me of stove pipe.
The centre of the lake was actually a
foot higher than the sides and Just be-
fore fountain would burst up, the
black crust would wave Just like the
ocean. Hot? Well | should say so.
l had to keep my feet moving up and
down to keep them from burning. [
broke off a piece of lava at the edge of
the lake and it was so hot it burnt my
fingers, but not before l succeeded in
getting it in my pocket. We remained
on the edge about five minutes, and
just started down and had only gotten
| about 80 feet when one of our party
| called for us to look back. We did so,
| and to our horror discovered that where
We were standing only two minutes be-
fore was now another river of fire,
another flow having broken out just
where we had been standing, but Mr..
Lee told us he could have told it was
| going to break out there in time for
| us to get away. We thought it was a
very lucky escape. Our faces were red
| as beets, and we started back to where
the rest of the party We're making speci
mems out of the first flow. After We
| finished our specimens We started back
to the house on the edge of the first
crater to see night close in on the vol
cano. 1t was the most awful sight l
ever witnessed. Brush could not paint,
| pen describe or tongue tell half of its
| wonders. Imagine Il lake frozen over
with jet black ice, with centre higher
than the sides. All over this are
cracks two inches wide, and YOU have
| the volcano with out the fountains are
| playing most of the time but not
| always in the same place and number
| from one to ten according to activity.
| We reached the little house just as the
sun was going down and as night came
| on the sight becomes grander. The
| dark surface was streaked with red
lines as if by zig-zag lightning shafts.
| A flow began, the molten mass heaved
and flowed over the black banks. At
| the same time other flows began
! and of the lake was a mass of
| LIQUID fire. Instantly this was all
| changed. Again the red lava burst
] forth into fantastic shapes over the dark
| molten mass then the fountains, which
| looked like huge fire works, would burst
| forth. At no two seconds was the
| scene the same. Wewatched this ever
| changing scene until 10 p. NJ, and
| then were loath to part from the weird
| fascinating scene. The next day in
looking around and going down into
! the crater again. Where we had the
same experience excepting we did not
90 down in crater No. 2 as the lava
flow was so hot it made it difficult to
travel in. This flow had filled up the
lower crater one foot during the night
and although the crust was hard
enough to walk on it was so hot you
could not bear your hand on 1t. The
fountains make great light and we
could see each other plain at night,
although we were over half mile
away.
The sulphur beds which are to the
right of the volcano house are very IN
teresting and in a great many other
places. We could see sulphur steam
coming out of the ground. In these
beds | found specimens of sulphur,
borax. alum and traces of iron, etc.
They look very much like the clay
holes in brickyards. We left Sunday
morning at s O'Clock on our return triP
to Hilo, arriving there about 3'9o L;
NJ. where we boarded the steamer ana
went through repetition OF the preVio' )
trip. Deep gorges, high mountains
rrsbiug waterfalls and abundant vege-
tation greet the eye as you come up
the v,ndward side of Hawaii, while the
Ieaward side is level, barren and rocky.
We reached Melia Bay on Mani at SIX
and were driven through the cane heldS
of Spreckelsville and other Plantations
to Wailuka, distance OF miles where
we rested for the night.
In the morning we started on trip
mn lao Valley. 1t was a rough sue
Int we felt repaid as this is one Oh i tle
n,ost beautiful valleys on Mani: we
ar,duallv ascended to the helght ol
about 500 feet where the mountains
wbich close in on us separate anu
Lac ms on a tableland about one
fourth of a mile square, around " In0n
r. mountains rise on all sides looo
tno, At noon VIC took the tram (the
ct T have been in since L lett San
Erarc;sco( for a II mile ride 10 ras"
- oorr;ges met us and took US 10
Mukawao, distance OF elSh', W.
through a horrible dusty ro"u -
|, reached there at six and II was n"iI -,
] ,oIJ what color we were as INC -
literally covered us. The secohI I%s
after arriving here we started loi 80 80,
IL the largest extinct volcano cla'ei
- the world. That night we spent a.
> ni;nJ, ~ fnur miles up the mountain So
os to oct good start the Eext oay, a. a.
%Ind9 the mercury registered 40 While
tha Volcano House it was 90 IN tht
i orning d. rnI At both places we had an Al,
n n''on FIRE nlace, which reminded me ol
AZ O'Clock the next morning
r sta- -ted TO 90 the remaining hiiies
a a up the mountains and, and 1t was We Vr gradual.
worst trail ever struck. we s6oo feet
! " ascended until we wee henoD 0Oto to fee fee
bieh, when our horses began a ,o 70 stor tgS
% the high altitude and we We had we 20 cot S'tt tt
4 and M rest every half mile Veg ID -
anu l. m 200 feet high, at lilo anu