The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-30

the mountain, The slopes are composed APP
paEeptly for the most Part, Of upheaved ma ma:
volcanic, powers, and there Is some elected
mater material on the upper slopes. On these
has flowed like, torrent and also like
least resistance. These lava rivers have cooled
" two forms Of widely VARYING n appeis ata
places like Tope @ and 70 res queen
shapes at the edge OF the stream. This is the
Esshhoehoe Hawaiian name which seems serns, to
smiar lava wherever found. The other form,
the ga lava. l. mn indiscrlmnate heap q angp-
The pahoehoe Sracklss under ipot " though
will cut the shoes on a man or the boots OF
S HG II very short %4cr net s9
through being lost in this lava, 49,,
:, In the ascent Of Mauna Loe 1t lie possible to
s fsse to hs ,Ss Il 70
rupted BY the difficult blocks. but these aim,
9S, Intervals are Ihs last
cold each Block Of AVA IS as co as' as Sock o!
the hands are numbed by touching the inhos-
pltable surroundings in the hope Of nnd ling
ports i lie Here II the mountain cunt " sck ness
comes comes t2 weaken the franz Just At Ct the time
when all its forces are needed There il no
apparent incentive to put forth tho last reserve
Of strength, there is no goal In sight; nYthIpR
tinues as it has been. from the very sea. no
eye flxes a limit beyond which the crater must
lie. When that limit has been reached tn,
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from whatever side 1t may be the actual crater
comes as surprise, One draws back as though
Just caught In time from topping over preci-
Of the summit waste Of gigantic blocks the
discovers IT By coming around the corner Of 9
aya soct snd n "a st the edge e OF
snow bank he looks down on lake lust below
him in which rocks are melted and flow like
water.
This is the crater OF Mokuaweoweo. It is a
hole in the ground nearly ten miles around.
not quite two miles in breath and little less
Larry and lakes of fire appear. from which
lakes Are fountains are intefmittenty at s"f play
Some have been measured by the officers Of
crater is active it is feasible to descend to the
lava level and to advance some distance in the
dangerous a feat as It NAV seem, for the heat
Of The Soo surface i' such that the soes &c, Of
there was any risk Of dropping, through the
crust. Yet there is nothing to be gained by
ss@ Of @ IF The 0s s
margin. Mokuaweoweo much resent les XII
lauea. They are lof approximately the same
lava and overfiowed over the rim Long be.
has given way at a lower level. and BY the
bss 6s s the the at
esa5y Il the How o so Which tre2s out s on
the flank OF the mountain below Kilauea and
flowed into the sea for three weeks.
The great Mauna loa flows are easily to be
traced along the bare mountainside from any
place which win afrord. an extended view. The
been emitted from the western. side Of the
mountain o} tain. 1t is about sixty miles long and
seven months. The two tf ow s Of 1875 and
1897 are close together at the southern point
of the sa4Pd hs one coming ping from vent ten
inland, The former had the speed OF ten miles
In two hours. which seems to be the record
broken out very close together and have fol-
lowed almost the same course. Tho flow
was headed in the direction Of Hilo. the second
city in the islands. but cooled off and stopped Il
few miles s outside the town Three years later
threatened Hlo once more and stopped alter
s9hsesied Again IN ias0 Hi H"' was asa atsaPted.
Every day it made some advance, every week
u was mile or 50 nearer and 1t never sweryed
and IT, bars was 5o ahmed dr dbsotE at
which the people began to move IN terror. When
that now stopped 1t was only three-quarters
II is not unusual to hear people say in Hllo
that the volcano has just been trying to get
the range and that the next time the lava will
engulf the city. The present outbreak OF
Mauna Loa may be that next time. There are
each on a different flank Of the mountain But
one Of these outbreaks. and the largest one.
the place where three Others have
There will be people supcrstitous enough to
believe that the mountain has at last got the
range. The old Hawaians have been expect
ing some, such thing ever since the first set
Element OF Hio.