Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-16
QUEEN LILlBOKALAAI
Gives 8 Description Of Her Trip [
 mauna Loa

I.iliuokaIani, in her interesting sHawaiGs Story by Hawaii's Queen
 has a chapter on Mauna Loa, in
 which she writes of a trip thither in 1 1880. She says. As though to + l Iumina6e ia honor of my visit. oa the night preceding our ascent of the mountain bright gLow was
 seen ca the top of Mokuaweoweo l This was tae porteut which pre- eeded that great flow of lava which
 soon commenced from Naana Loa. aud took it's course down the sides of that mountain towards the city of lilo. We were thus witnesses from the very beginning of one of i tEe most extensive and Iong-e0atia.
 ued eruDtions which bas ever been recorded ia history for it was pro-
 traeted over period Of eleven
 months. Early on the following
 morning we started CD horseback l on our journey to the crater of Xii
 Iauea. where we arrived about five
 o'clock she same evening. Thls is
 uot, as some strangers suppose, 9
 mountain by itseIf. totally distinct
 from the general volcanic system of
 Mauna Loa. That word in our Ian-
 guage signifies the great long noun
 tain. and tbe nature of the elevation
 well deserves the term forin height
 l8. TOO feet it 5s exceeded bY few in l the world, wbje in extent it In.
 cludes about one-third of our Iarg-
 est island. Tbe er0ptioos are not
 usually from Che summit, out gen.
 arally through assures in its sides. l One of these fs the eraser lake sef
 Ei.aaea. aregion of perpetual fire, of aa activity more or less pro- uouneed, yet never entirely extinct,
 and situated some twenty miles or so east from fhe summit at aa ele- ration of about four thousand feet, It is one of the few, f aot the ! oaIy one. of the volcanoes fn tbe work which caa be visited at the periods of its greatest displays 3 without the least danger to the o6. I server; because ft Is always possible to watch it's bubbling fires from a higher point than their source. It
 is not the lava from the burning
 lake which makes its way down the ? mountain, but that from other eIaces where #tbe concealed fires of
 Maura Loa burst forth.
 l After our refresbment. darkness 2 quickly succeeded the setting of the sun (there being no long twilight, ] as in more northern eIimes). so we 2 spent the evening in watching the e frey glow in the crater, the oril- Q lance of which seemed to be spread [ ing along the level floor or surface : of the pit. From 8 flooring of lighl ? and heat the surface changed al 9 times to pillows of actual fire; ther q tets burst up or fountains played Q high iu the air, standing bY them t selves a moment like burning col 2 umns; then steam intervened tc : stiHe the flames. Mist following t this, tie crater was for awhile bid e den from our sight. and nature d gorgeous fireworks suspended, A ? one of these intervals we retired fol l. the night. but at two o'clock VI e were ali awaSeaed by our host tt 2 see an exEjeltion such as has seldom h been furnished for the inspection Q '- any of tae many tourists who T5si ]. that region This was a most 6rit F. liant illumination at the summit 0 ! Mauna Loa itse.fr and fsr iron n 8esseDiaa ifs manifestations seemes IS to renJer more Vgid the fires of ta. d crater ot kiaus8. The mfsts bar - cleared away ia hatdirect.ou, ant
 we thus bad the good fortune q.
 watch oa one and the same occas. .oJ .s the outbursts of light at the sunni
 and the jets of dancing flame a thl le sides. Ii vas night never to bt