The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-31

crater you have 10 leave the morse; BuLtne
youngest Lee girl hops into the saddle to. show
you how II Is done and whispers to you. Albert
knows how 1, whercat you look rather doubt
nY9Sw,y t'G revise Jour ideas, Of The. ySgaefty q
Potter Lee and OF the grandeur OF Kilauea as
introduction TO ho~rsewomanship after the Ha-
waiian fashion the sun has brought us beams
81 except for on a mist ESp 6an ifRN ssniSagslG'dd in the Shade
under. the eastern wall. No doubt now as TO
the volcano or its, whereabouts. You feel glddy
when you sec almost at your feet a vast pit
900 feet doep, the bottom OF WHICH has fatty
dropped out from the, most solid thing son
sion for solidity, the solid earth itself and a
mountain Of rock; Some one reGltes the state
ment Of the guide book that the crater Is 20
many miles long and so many miles wide and
has n depth OF 50 many i,Get, on the lava, floor.
a sSt Thst IN 4San FISn hss all are that an impsrt foeS It
y. Grand method. Down below. there
from the mountain slope there may be 9 GER
tain number Of sqnaT,e, miles, But what is a
measure to make a record Of the. magnifcence
Of the Are and fury which made that PIT? Nile
seeing OF power in its Infinite degree. the. eye
sees the cliffs square cut above the crater floor.
square cut with the mountain slone. above
not make too clear that Impression Of a vast
dropping down there Is a thrill OF fear that
4 5o fo s%i I'll t Ri!SSt w; S5sSS9li from 5Sai the lRs SIs G%1is seems seems
us ltNtl dh u HOOT VI CuTItUITy. IL n OnI1 Wntu
you get down TO it that you see low
BIt before yon see that you have to face the
SGI'ttibn st s SwS q 9}n nTys Sge path = b e1lsts thhr o o
Of scrambling. in and out in fearsome ziGzags
down a sheer face Of rock. They tell you that
trail. There are times when arithmetic loses
its power TO console: this is ono Of them. and
youfee that your own feet are surer on such a
ladder, and disregardipg that difficult matter 81
you dismou nnTt"anT and make e the descent afoot and,
II truth he told; letting yourself over certain
steGpnesses with a hand clutch on the ohelo
iater2and perhaps Just as wei that i is So
bic proved too much, the only, death
5 5sys %hen for e 6diIdH%sn f StnsG the lnsan 9satssR
wrath sometimes refused TO be anpeased, with
be paciled only by something that gave. a
ddG ss scream ETiob when ben t WPs tossed into the
away. that Kaapiolninni made an enc. Of the last Of
better nowadays. Still you, may happen to see
the Hawaiian guide, Albert, as he helps you
Hi nto his Gse p S5t e p'S ma Z y y%iS may Hs 9 ehanc an to- sep sep i q
little spriG Of green floating. down through the
hot air into the pit where Pele once lived. the
most thirty miles every Sunday to GO to church
and sing hymns. you feel 9 stray wonder as to
Mltin'l VIZ, Ou ktuS Art dllcT dl lulUt utdu,
At last and out OF breath you have scrambled
down to the. floor of the crater, and with the
% SssiS 4iSEs w f 3 r sSe tEo Sga g 59a t thSs Tx Fnd Lse h girl
Level AZ that lava floor looked from the brink
Of the p%recirice you find that now it has its
far ahead; At the very beginning is a bridge
across a dcep gorge in the rock, a split in the
the string of lava blocks which have been set
where In the dull SumenpSS ii iS pnSy To get lost
and hard TO find oneself or to be found when
astray. There is not a level spot anywhere; the
s%plinters with a crunching sound as though one
We're going over split sugar. Al every turn the
to inRulf the incautious trespasser, here in
such weird shares as Niagara takes on in win
where are cracks and crevasses. Besides the
strange shapes of the lava under foot which
hold TIE eye; there Is yet nothing to see but the
which the string of the guide block shows the
path to, descend. and the wider view is bounded
cmapations Of the crater. You feel the heat.
the CLASSY surface reflects the sun. no breeze dips
about its own better business. and there is a
terna HrSs EroWi e lin i5mprSssion that the in
tf5ff@ cru ntes s snrfa smo'd&f t lasi the hot c5 62 ifr be gndsdF
which the horses may not 60. is reached. Here
is mi Mater te "a a nee VEL appTTescia,t lated for the last
the. we'll borer, would tap fire. not water. and
s spd g. are replaced by vents putting out steam
anu u lobJI IuL u lew SHttIBO OIL tOTTuEHteO
iron set on a slant serve to .condense the
yyaPor. which settles down at nightfall and to
SO that it may be a trifle less warm for tourist
and horse.
Beyond the, CORA! the surface is more rent
field is edged with a crust Of dirty, yellow from
rjft a sEeiterin aS' gust Of sS SRd Sre and 1ff fused q
ffhe1ic2ls sHttnGs the eyes and ehofes the
less upDth the earth iS surely now pnnfribmfinD
to 2 i@miP Ths chimney inn tPr0jyetIns from q slszed
shows a trembling chasm Of hot and sulphur
cGat I, rock; The guide puts his stick, into a
the CLASSY crust and brings It out ablaze alter
Just touching the fervent heat over which
EI nc2hee F0 OF Tf' siaG b %!t Y S9 m 81 eo shse Its 6 S5 s as
you draw near the shaft whereby the earth
makes ia a SAFETY dfdIy y Y, for its ~Pept-up forces at
all very well to reassure oneself with the state
ment there is no danger: but even the, men in
content 70 Jet Albert pioneer err" this as9 part sGfE Of tRs
merely hot rock and a string Of guide stones. :"
There Is a throh and a CULVER anda fever dane
encirclinR cliff in the distance seems to reel and
bow. 1t Is not quite certain that the lava under
i ioGt h i SHAKING max : ~ but ut b there lisa Is a trTSmpble pnmis-
sulphur In the heated ar thea the air iH hotter rs n t6se
t. has been; Suddenly we are standing at the
',hNN SV.pi q ~ " ~ WlIllln Ilt DlI, a
place Of evil vapors Of metals reduced to a
steam that sears and scorchcs,, a place Of dread
",HalemaQma,u.". 1t is then that one may no.
ttce a little BIT Of green dropping into the In:
ierno OF ,sWirling yapors, perhaps a twiR of
pphelo such as pagan Hawaii dropped into 'Pele's
to see Albert put such a twig into the
pocket OF his blouse far away back in that dis
tant world where the soil was cool and green
things grew, long before you came into this
place Of t3rments. this limbo and Gehenna and
place OF burnings. Well, what II he did ? II
you were Hawaiian. and no longer ago than
IN your Erandfather's time, even in your own
fathers b%oyhood. this Pele was a goddess capa-
BILE OF much harm unless properly. placated.
you might yourself somehow feel IL best to be
on the safe side and toss over your own little
sprg ot, ohelo. o ( course such a demon as
Pele could impress only wild sayages, but il As
not the Haw,aiians, who hold IDEAS about split
salt and broken mirrors and that sort ofthinP,
Guide Albert and Potter Lee and ali who
know the crater tell of its three conditions. 1t
that the lava level In the Halema'uma'u is at a
stapdStil,I, and that much Of 1t is scummed over
WIN dark stag one or, more open places show
the incandcscence and these spots are known