The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-08
BY WILLIAM DUDLEY FouLKE

oAV IL every SlyiS VI o1SAASo~eo4 .
surrounded by luyuriant tropical trees
and shrubs of every sort. and with
smooth green laws and gorgeous flow
er beds, all this close to sparkling
sea. and with picturesque and rugged
mountains behind, forms combina
| ton of rare attractiveness.
take up my quarters at the Moana
Hotel three miles from the business
centre of the city and right on the
Waikiki beach. where the bathers
spend hours at time in the warm
surf or summing themselves upon the
sands, riding the surf-boats or paid
ling in parties Of five or six young
men and women in the long narrow
native dug-out canoes with outriggers
to keep from tipping in the waves.
Soft Air Perfume Laden
The air is soft and laden with a
peculiar delightful sedgy perfume
You lie on the beach and don't want
to move or think, but just to dream
and watch the rich tropical scene
around you. You feel like the man in
one OF Watts Hymns who says:
MY willing soul would stay
In such scene as this,
And sit and sing itself away
In everlasting bliss"
This does very we'll for the nice
clear beautiful day when you arrive
and when you see the departing
guests of the Hotel on their way back
to the ship all encircled with long gar.
lands of flowers in Hawaiian fashion
and wreathed in smiles as well. But
the next day it rains cats and dogs
pretty much all day and you realize
that even In the Sandwich Islands
life is not one uninterrupted round OF
enjoyment. Do you remember what
Thackeray says of some tropic isle,
lying In the balmy deep, where the
skies forever smile, and the blacks
forever weep? It seems to be the
other way here. 1t is the swarthy
sons and particularly the swarthy
daughters of the tropics who do most
OF the smiling and it is the skies
which do all the weeping.
Names in Hawaiian Tongue
Nearly all the names of places here.
abouts are in the Hawaiian tongue
Whenever you try to read and pro-
nounce the words of an unknown Ian
guage, difficulties Of all sorts beset
your way. Who has not writhed un-
der the tortures Of that unpronounc-
able fortress in Galicia which the Rus
SLAMS took and then had to give up
again? Indeed Polish, as have heard
it spoken in Warsaw seemed to me
like a succession of variegated
sneezes, all sorts of consonants being
mingled together in wild luxuriance,
unrelieved by good, clear vowel any
where. Now the trouble with Hawai-
ian words is just the reverse. 1t is
nearly all vowels and you have to
think minute or two after uttering
one Of them, to be sure which vowel
comes next Hawaii itself and Oahu,
the principal islands are examples
rothing but vowels and an aspirate.
Just try these words and see how they
go -Waianuenue Street, Honaunau,
Laupahoehoe. etc., etc, and then won
Ger if an old-fashioned English damn
would make good variation.
Takes Passage on Mauna Kea
! took passage on the "Mauna Kea"
one Of the little inter-island steamers
for Hilo in the island Of Hawaii to
see Kilauea, the great volcanocrater.
II is always active but Just now there
is particularly brilliant eruption
Now this crater is not at all what
one expects to see in a volcano. Or
dinarily you have great conical peak
and the top, instead of coming to a
perfect point, is little flattened to
outside appearance and if you climb
to the summit you find within a great
cup-shaped hole with fire and smoke
and vapors coming out of some hidden
place at the bottom.
Where Variation is Found.
That is the regular. normal, ortho-
doy volcano such as Vesuvius or Aetna
or Papocatapetl, or the Fire and Water
volcanoes of Central America. A
cloud Of smoke and steam rises from
the apex and floats away into the sky.
A variation Of this orthodox type is
found in volcanoes where the main
crater is at the top and there are little
branch craters at the sides. Indeed
some of the extinct volcanoes have
such sort of volcanic rash. or series
of volcanic boils broken out on all
parts of their bodies. I recall the
volcano of Pico in the Azores as an
example. We might consider these as
moderate dissenters from the true
faith in Vulcanology. But Kilauea is
more than this.
1t is an arch hereto, a rebel against
the true doctrine in volcano construc.
ton. For the great crater is not at
the top at all but comparatively near
the bottom. Mauna Lea (Long Mount
AIM is $4,000 feet high, and the crater
Of Kilauea is on one of the sides of
this mountain and only 1000 feet
above the sea. Mauna Loa, although
nearly three miles high rises so gently
that it hardly looks like a mountain
at all and you only recognize it as
such frin Hilo (where you land) by
the great white field Of snow at the
top. Snow in the tropics means great
altitude, otherwise you would hardly
know this for mountain at all.
Mauna Kea the other great volcano ON
the island (now extinct) is only few
feet higher yet you can clearly see that
this is big mountain for it has sew
eral peaks that glisten. in the sunlight.
In both cases however the ascent is so
gradual that you can ride a horse to
the summit.
At Top is Active Crater.
At the top Of Mauna Loa there is
an active crater called Mokuaweoweo,
that is it becomes active every. few
years sending vast streams of lava
down to the plains. A number of years