The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-09-25
"I'n go down if anybody else will"

"Il go down if anybody else will"
"rm ready to GO"
from old London town. and the reply from E Marsh Hale
San Francisco boy both of whom working in Hlo for Fred
Harrison at the Hilo Hotel.
The time o'clock night Saturday,
September 18 and the place the brink of the of Haema
With them Reynolds j. Burnett another Brisher from
Cravesend All of them Photographic artists
In the darkness of the night with other light than the u glare
that afforded by the volcanic fires of Haemaumau coming from
depths nobody where young
and began the Densus Averni depth Of
near hundred sliding crawling and scrambng pac
Ecay precpous cliff composed of loose rocks and stones with Moth
ing beneath them but everlasting fire.
Saturday night they descended half way down the cliff
point where photographer Ernest Moses took his views of
party day peous attempt the climbers
being practically suspended mdar, cngng rocks with
fingers the crevces compelled at times swing from side
buers escape fumes of sulphur that cho
Them which added the danger and the risk they had Under
taken Two Japanese boys from the hotel stood the brink that
Saturday night stricken with and peechess Afraid
they say any noise that they might make might brighten those
who hanging between Heaven and He'll
There the Stood their figures time almost in the
dark another lighted from the fires below They the solid
lava which they judged Be feet from the liquid
which phed times from feet above the level of the lake
in its endless motion empeled by unknown and hidden power
Upon their to the Volcano House after midnight the story OF
Reynolds and Hale first scarcely credited but when they show
ed their scoced their bruised limbs and places where the skin
had been aped from their and legs and they had been sub
by witnesses longer left doubt
They Hale and Reynolds who had gone down the night
before Ernest Moses the photographer German who anxious
what other artist had DONE pictures of the nena
lake showing the massive cliffs that surrounded it. and Hawaiian
boy Makaweo Maku who driver for the Fire Department Tie
Central Station at Honolulu
Having made attempt Reynolds and Hale took upon themselves
pack the Photographic apparatus of Moses and down they
The heat seemed than the night before but bad the
sulphur with its suocaing fumes which almost choked them c
death Fortunately that there varied air
and when almost exhausted by the sulphur draft of fresh air
abed them to again inhale pure oxygen.
Down. down they Every roc seemed loose Every ston
ready slip from their graspng fingers At time Hale who
ahead slipped distance of feet badly snnng and leg
Reynolds behind him and for seemed question
whether the two not doing down to eternity Finally e
reached spot of feet above the molten lava where there
for photographer Moses fix his camera the Hawaiian boy
remaining with him and daring o venture further
Thirty feet lower Hale and Reynolds till they stood TIN
black lava only below the level of the liquid lake Their
they gradually and slowly moved about trying with the heels of tei
boots they moved along find spot that soft TIL
rest and which they might venture stand The floor of the pit