The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-30

2 Printer next to her groaned dismally
Hennery, who had wedged himself in
/ near at hand, ceased talking (ominous
/ sign of a sudden, and in moment
5 after rose quickly and made his way
| to the entrance. At first he moved care
fully over the PROSTATE forms, then, as
the exigencies of the case became more
t pressing, quicker; finally with a plunge
, his head went outside and there was a
| noise as of the rush of waters. He was
sick
Then another growled out, "Confound
you, you've got one of your spurs in my
carr
i "Oh Lord! groaned another, I've got
a cramp, Oh! murder! Sit ON me, some
body Oh Lordi oh Lordr'
The blacksmith here. interposed with
go to sleep, can't you; confound your
cramps; keep your feet still, 1 want
them for pillow"
Charlie, wrapped in his serapa, STIR
red uneasily and muttered, Il wonder
| who it is that has turned in with his
rawhide sandals on. Phew, how they
| smellr'
| Bob grumbled at $50 much chin mu-
| sic" The Historian, who had propped
| himself up against tent pole, softly
| sighed his woe out on the unsympa-
| thetic-in fact giddy-air, while the
| Captain painted beneath heavy load of
| blankets, oil cloths, overcoats, etc., and
vowed the next morning that he hadn't
| slept wink.
Our two Rhode Island friends were
discovered when daylight came. Jam
| med in together in pulpy mass in a
crevice in the floor of our tent. Now
and then the night wind swept over us
water was freezing all the while-and
conyulsive groan shook the heaving
mass of humanity. A few moments lull
would follow, cramps would again seize
some one of the party, and the tent be |
again in an uproar. Did one of the oc- |
cupants attempt to turn over? com |
motion ensued as if one sardine in a |
boxfu1l had attempted to sleep on the |
other side. Now and then room would |
have to be made for some one to get |
his head outside-to be sick. All the |
night an undertone of growls sounded /
in unison with the uninterrupted roar
of the fire fountain. Before daylight |
that heavy sound grew much louder,
and upon viewing the jet then it had |
sensibly increased in volume and in
height. Its cone was growing rapidly /
in size, and now the two broad wings
were almost closed in front. Down the
sloping sides of this cone ran streams
of liquid lava that, uniting at it's base,
either found their way back into the
whirI of molten matter or else streamed
out over the surface of the ever widen
ing lake that filed the bottom of the
lower basin.
AS the rays Of the approaching morn
ing sun began to illuminate the far
distant eastern horizon-how far dis
tant can't say, l refer you to Keawe-
we saw that the upward starting beams
of light passed through a thick belt of
clouds, encircling the mountain. Not a
sign of sea or land was visible in any
and we felt very much alone.
The sticks of wood which we had
brought up the night before had fur
nished a good fire, whereat our tea was
boiled-such tea! Boiling, as the water
did, at a temperature of about 1876 deg.
Fair it failed to extract the divine nee
tar, and only limited by it's warmth and
sweetness-we had plenty of sugar
at "the cup that cheers The Sabbath
morning that was now dawning so
cheerlessly found us shivering over a
blaze under the lee of our tent,
from whose trailing folds issued strange
sounds and stranger looking blpeds.
The Captain, who had been exploring
the depths of a huge crack that wsG
along the crater edge, here return /
with a cake of pure, beautiful ice that
he had found deep down in the rent.
off with a five-gallon container
we clambered down and quickly filled
it, We had been assured that there
was plenty of water on the summit, and
it was very pleasant to prove the cor
rectness of the information. After our
breakfast we took one last look at the
active crater. No amount of daylight
could wholly dim the brightness of the
fiery column that still sent up it's vol
umes of molten lava. The isolated
fires burning on the right hand edge of
the lower basin were black and dead
apparently; the surface Of the lake
flowing out from the cone no longer
glowed with a bright tracery of lines,
but this was due to daylight, not TO
any diminution of the pillar of fire. EX-
amining the lower basin again, we no
ticed that it extended rather more to
the right than is shown in the sketch,
and it's western margin was close under
the beetling cliffs that rose above it.
Packing up our blankets and other
traps did not take us long; and while
this was being done a scroll was pre- [
pared, setting forth that on the 9TH of
September, 1872, the following party
reached the summit and camped at .
that spot retiring from the scene again
early on the morning of the Sth: Mrs.
J. H. Black, the first woman known to
have accomplished the ascent; ]. H.
Black, H. NJ. Whitney, Henry Macfar
lane, Chas. n. Spencer, Robert Rycroft,
Captain David Smith, John T. Chayter,
John McColgan, John Reaney, Geo. H.
Arthur w. Claflin, F. L. Clarke,
with the guide, Henry Grandall, and
three Hawaiians. We left directions
where to find water, and encasing the |
whole in tin, which we plugged tight
ly, the affair was suspended from a pole
driven deep into crevice, and left for
the edification of future tourists. The
rba no hnrn |