The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-12
Mt. And mother says I may GO
Wen, go and get ready, then.


| We'll, go and get ready, then"
/ Mounting couple borrowed horse
Kate riding astride in the Hawaii
an style, eminently suited for tn
rough Countrywide two set out sool
| after breakfast. The air was still
! thick and heavy with volcanic smoke
and the sun glared angrily through it.
yellow folds.
The horses were urged into a canter
and after about three-quarters of al
hours hard going were refined in be.
fore the same barrier that had caused
such unpleasantness on that terrible
night. Having now the daylight tC
help them, Captain Brown and his
daughter soon made an astonishing
discovery. From as far in both direc-
tions as they could see-on the upper
side of the road to a spot where the
forests hid it, and on the lower where
the land dropped down into the sea-
stretched a line marked throughout
its length by freshly broken earth and
upheaved rock. 1t Iooked-as indeed
proved to have been the case-as II
part of the island had become loosen
ed during one of the terrific earth
quakes, and had slipped along sea-
ward, turning UP the soil and stones
as it passed. When measured, the dis
lance between the lower edge of one
part Of the separated road and the up
per edge of the other was found to
be exactly twenty-five feet!
With some difficulty the horses We're
piloted around into the smooth high
way and the journey was continued.
AS they proceeded the smoke became
denser. They also encountered herds
of cattle wandering about in search of
water and unburnt pasturage.
Presently they saw before them a
great black, coiling monster. Peering
through the smokeclouds they dis
covered it to be the flow that had
threatened their destruction on that
memorable night. Dismounting, they
secured their horses to a tree that had
been spared by the fire, and cautiously
approached the lava. AS very little
heat seemed to come from it they drew
closer, and the father laid his hand up
on a protruding mass. 1t was still
warm. but not unpleasantly SO.
eff we rum" said he, 81 think our
shoes will come to no harm" He step
ped upon the flow and quickly strobe
across. Kate followed, at a quicker
pace, however, for her so.es were rath
er thin for such walking.
One over, they set out across the
new barren pasture, and soon arrived
at the edge of the main flow. This, in
places, was still very kot. Steam and
vapors still rose in places,
and here and there, within deep cracks,
glowed the fiery, red-hot lava.
Let us follow down until we come
opposite where the houses Stood" said
Kate.
Yes" responded her father. "I was
in hopes all would not be destroyed,
but 1 very much fear that nothing is
left. In fact, nothing could be saved
from such a flood" He sighed sadly
and YEARLY, then they moved along
at a comfortable distance from the
flow, however.
Huge clouds of smoke bore down up
on them, SO that they were nearly
blinded and choked, but neither the
man nor the girl would turn back until
they had thoroughly surveyed the
scene.
Father" exclaimed Kate, suddenly,
what it that-that gray spot over
there in the smoke?
Oh, what is it?'' And the excited
girl ran forward, calling, Lila! Liza!
Oh, father, it is LAS grass hut!'
a Whit OF wind sweeping the smoke
away disclosed the little hut. and in its
opened doorway stood the old woman.
Her wrfnkled face was drawn and
chastity, but she smiled a happy vel
come to the girl; and Kate. regard
ess OF thin soles, dashed across the |
ava and reached the untouched space
hat surrounded the tiny dwelling.
ba crirI shell
leld the old woman in tender en-
,race, how did it happen that the
ava did not come over you? The
ground is no higher here than it is
lsewhere.'
'|Ah," responded Liza, with a slow
hake of her grizzled head. sit is not
II clear. Much suffering has come to
ne and the old man. But in that aw-
I'll time, when Pele, with her fery}
tream, was upon as, God struck His
taft into the earth-there''-s point
d to the spot where the flow divided
nd, sweeping widely. had left the
tie hut unharmed-"and Pele could
OF come nearer. Her anger was
reat. She blew her hot breath al us,
ut save for much suffering, as I say,
e were not hurt. All, the great
kua is goodi''
Presently hunting about. Kate found
lie big tea-kettle. half full of cooled
wa. some of which, in a hard, I'M
readable pendant, was hanging from
lie spout. Then the whole party re
lrned to the village. LA and her
.eble husband seated on the horses i
The danger for the present was over
the volcano was quiet again. But
IT a long time afterwards Kate and
er mother would awake trembling,
aying dreamed that the eruption was t