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As the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory did not exist on Kilauea until 1912, Hawaii newspapers are a primary source for information about Kilauea and other Hawaiian volcanoes during the 1800s. Volcanologists studied the stories that reported the eruptions and earthquakes

From the article: "For four days she played her pyrotechnics, sending tons of molten lava high into the air, and playing with hugh [sic] fragments of solidified rock as though she were scattering feathers before the wind. With rythmic [sic] and hideous noise, the echoes of slushing, slashing, dashing and lashing lava could be heard surging amidst the dark fastnesses below, as Pele turned loose her hounds of fire. Old Vulcan sent his sparks scattering across the cloak of darkness, while Pluto held sway in his realm of cold, bleak and cheerless waste, where the God of Fire in an unbridled fury had spent his spleen."

Hilo Tribune, March 21, 1905, Image 1 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016339/1905-03-21/ed-1/seq-1/